Title
Who Is Responsible for Saving the Language? Performing Generation in the Face of Language Shift
Publication Date
2015
Description
In the literature on language shift and revitalization, generations are defined a priori as existing social categories that are mapped onto sociolinguistic features. In contrast, we take a performance-based perspective and develop a view of generations as discursively constructed frameworks that are aligned with sociolinguistic and moral features that attend language retention and associated factors. Using this perspective and empirical data from a high school speech contest held in a language-shifting Lakota community where revitalization efforts are underway, we show how contestants and participants perceive and experience language loss and renewal.
Journal
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Volume
25
Issue
2
First Page
128
Last Page
149
Department
Education
Link to Published Version
DOI
10.1111/jola.12083
Recommended Citation
Henne-Ochoa, Richard and Bauman, Richard. "Who Is Responsible for Saving the Language? Performing Generation in the Face of Language Shift." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (2015) : 128-149.