Codeswitching Avoidance as a Strategy for Mam (Maya) Linguistic Revitalization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4558893 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wesley M Collins (0000-0003-4711-5860, SIL International, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 239-276 |
| Publication date | 2005-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/497872 |
| OpenAlex | W2040392560 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 34 |
Since 1991, Fishman has carved out a new area of focus for research and linguistic activism—the Reversal of Language Shift (RLS)—within the general field of the Sociology of Language. In this article, I discuss a strategy of RLS employed by speakers of Mam (Maya), an endangered language of Guatemala. Less‐educated Mam routinely codeswitch to Spanish, which I present within Myers‐Scotton's Markedness Model of codeswitching (1993), while educated speakers categorically do not. Communication Accommodation Theory (Giles and Powesland 1975) offers a framework for accounting for this contrastive behavior through consideration of convergence and divergence strategies aimed at constructing positive social identities (Tajfel 1974). I briefly illustrate this codeswitching behavior in four abridged narrative texts and compare speakers' attitudes toward codeswitching in relation to how many years of formal education they have had. I suggest that the initiative of Mam teachers in "purifying the language" is supportive of their general goal of RLS and Mam linguistic and cultural revitalization
Divergence (linguistics · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Linguistic anthropology · Linguistics · Markedness · Maya · Narrative · Relation (database · Sociology · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching
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Migration intention and Indigenous social networks in the place of origin
Language ideology, space, and place-based identity formation among the Tzotzil Maya of Chiapas, Mexico
Relational and Identity Processes in Communication
Nqab’än Repetir las Mismas Palabras
A Tale of Two Mam Children
Linguistic differentiation and Mayan language revitalization in Guatemala1
The Norwegian language in America
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Mayan efforts toward language preservation
An Integrative Theory of Intergroup Conflict
Strategic ambiguity
The politics of codeswitching and language choice
Comparing codeswitching and borrowing
Codeswitching and the exclusivity of social identities
Una encuesta dialectal en el area mam de Guatemala
Language
Colonization, globalization and the plight of ‘weak’ languages
The politics of Mayan linguistics in Guatemala
Communication accommodation and the prototypical speaker
Ethnolinguistic identity theory
Social identity and intergroup behaviour
The world's languages in crisis
Another View of Endangered Languages
Language choice, social institutions, and symbolic domination
The Analysis of Linguistic Borrowing
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |