Yamasaki, Eriko: Yucatec Maya Language on the Move : A Cross-disciplinary Approach to Indigenous Language Maintenance in an Age of Globalization. - Bonn, 2019. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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@phdthesis{handle:20.500.11811/8153,
urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5-55472,
author = {{Eriko Yamasaki}},
title = {Yucatec Maya Language on the Move : A Cross-disciplinary Approach to Indigenous Language Maintenance in an Age of Globalization},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2019,
month = aug,

note = {This dissertation discusses the language maintenance of Yucatec Maya in the contemporary world characterized by intensified global interactions. Manifested in the increased mobility of speakers and the intensive use of electronic media in majority languages, globalization is commonly considered to threaten the vitality of indigenous languages worldwide. The currently-observed language shift from Yucatec Maya to Spanish should also be seen in the context of social changes articulated with global processes. As a manifestation of transnational connections in people's everyday lives, this work focuses on the mobility of Maya speakers within the Yucatan Peninsula related to the transnational tourism development in the Mexican Caribbean. Examining the language situation of Yucatec Maya in view of internal migration framed by the global capitalist economy, this dissertation aims to contribute to theoretical debates on the vitality of indigenous languages in the present age of globalization. Despite many parallels with other shifting communities, the Yucatecan case stands out for a marked contrast between the revalorization of the indigenous language and the declining rate of its intergenerational transmission. In order to address these seemingly contradicting sociolinguistic realities, the study adopts an anthropological approach, drawing on debates on the cultural dynamics of globalization as the theoretical orientation and ethnographic fieldwork as its method. Based on the cross-disciplinary research, these apparent inconsistencies are understood as a shift in meaning attached to Yucatec Maya by speakers in view of the increased contact and communication. In the course of the language's deterritorialization, Yucatec Maya increasingly becomes the object of conscious reflection and representation away from embodied practice. For the maintenance of Yucatec Maya, metalinguistic engagement with it should go in hand in hand with its intergenerational transmission as practical mastery. The research identifies current gaps between these two modalities of cultural knowledge, which should be bridged to ensure the vitality of the indigenous language in today's globalized world.},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/8153}
}

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