Linguapax
Dell Hymes and the New Language Policy Studies: Update from an Underdeveloped Country
TERESA L. MCCARTY1,*,
JAMES COLLINS2,*,
RODNEY K. HOPSON3,*
Article first published online: 16 DEC 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2011.01143.x
This essay updates Dell Hymes's "Report from an Underdeveloped Country" (the USA), positioning our analysis in the New Language Policy Studies. Taking up Hymes's call for comparative, critical studies of language use, we examine three cases, organizing ouranalysis around Hymes's questions: What "counts" as a language, a language problem, and "proper" language use? We conclude with a final question suggested by Hymes's Report: How can a critical-ethnographic approach to language policy transform persistent linguistic [Dell Hymes, new language policy studies, ethnography of?inequalities? communication, linguistic inequality, educational linguistics]
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1548-1492.2011.01143.x/abstract
Issue: Anthropology & Education Quarterly
Volume 42, Issue 4, pages 335-363, December 2011