Toward an interactional approach to multilingualism
- 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.
| Author details: | Kristine StenzelORCiDGND, Nicholas WilliamsORCiD |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2021.05.010 |
| ISSN: | 0271-5309 |
| ISSN: | 1873-3395 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Language & communication : an interdisciplinary journal |
| Subtitle (English): | Ideologies and practices in the northwest Amazon |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | Oxford |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/07/28 |
| Publication year: | 2021 |
| Release date: | 2024/01/11 |
| Tag: | Conversation analysis; Language documentation; Language ideology; Multilingualism; North-west Amazonia; Tukanoan; languages |
| Volume: | 80 |
| Number of pages: | 29 |
| First page: | 136 |
| Last Page: | 164 |
| Funding institution: | National Science FoundationNational Science Foundation (NSF) [BCS1664348] |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache | |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
