Insecurity through Diversity: A Case Study from the Northwest Amazon

Autor/in	Shulist, Sarah
Titel	Insecurity through Diversity: A Case Study from the Northwest Amazon
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 43 (2022) 3, S.200-213 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2022.2039674
Schlagwörter	Case Studies; Civil Rights; Native Language; American Indian Languages; Self Concept; American Indians; Foreign Countries; Language Usage; Language Skill Attrition; Language Maintenance; Diversity; Language Attitudes; Indigenous Populations; Brazil + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Selbstkonzept; American Indian; Indianer; Ausland; Sprachgebrauch; Sprachverfall; Sprachpflege; Sprachverhalten; Sinti und Roma; Brasilien
Abstract	This paper uses the themes of language rights, language choice, and language risk to consider linguistic insecurity in the Northwest Amazon (Upper Negro river) region of Brazil. Because the region is home to a large number of languages (c. two dozen), the idea of preserving this diversity is a popular theme in discourses about language in the Upper Negro river. I argue that the ideologies underlying the goal of preserving 'diversity' as a concept are not, in fact, the same ones that have sustained the presence of these languages thus far, especially as concerns the Tukanoan languages of the Uaupés basin (Jackson, J. E. 1983. "The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia." Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press). Paradoxically, the reification of 'diversity' as a characteristic of the Northwest Amazonian Indigenous population has tended to promote homogenisation among groups that have historically valued differentiation from one another. In examining ideologies and practices surrounding each of the three themes of this issue, I suggest that discourses of 'diversity', applied at the local level, can create complex outcomes for the languages they are used to promote. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/4/11