TY  - JOUR
A1  - Stenzel, Kristine
A1  - Williams, Nicholas
T1  - Toward an interactional approach to multilingualism
BT  - Ideologies and practices in the northwest Amazon
JF  - Language & communication : an interdisciplinary journal
N2  - This study examines language ideologies and communicative practices in the multilingual Vaupes region of northwestern Amazonia. Following a comparative overview of the Vaupes as a 'small-scale' language ecology, it discusses claims from existing ethnographic work on the region in light of data from a corpus of video-recordings of sociolinguistic interviews and spontaneous everyday conversations. It shows how a practice-based and interdisciplinary approach combining language documentation methodology and ethnographic, structural linguistic, and interactional perspectives can contribute to understanding of macro and micro aspects of multilingualism, thus contributing to future work on the Vaupes, typologies of small-scale multilingual ecologies, and language contact research.
KW  - Multilingualism
KW  - Language ideology
KW  - North-west Amazonia
KW  - Tukanoan
KW  - languages
KW  - Language documentation
KW  - Conversation analysis
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2021.05.010
SN  - 0271-5309
SN  - 1873-3395
VL  - 80
SP  - 136
EP  - 164
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -