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Language Policy and Language Ideology: Ecological Perspectives on Language and Education in the Himalayan Foothills
Author(s) -
Groff Cynthia
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12235
Subject(s) - ideology , sociology , language policy , foothills , linguistics , ethnography , language ideology , context (archaeology) , value (mathematics) , linguistic description , social science , ecology , geography , anthropology , political science , pedagogy , computer science , politics , biology , philosophy , archaeology , machine learning , law
Ethnographic research in the Kumaun region of North India highlights different perspectives on this multilingual context and on national‐level policies. Language policies that explicitly or implicitly minoritize certain linguistic varieties influence local discourses about language and education but are also interpreted through the lens of local language ideologies. Ecological metaphors and different scalar perspectives illustrate the complex relationship among languages as speakers of an unrecognized language reinterpret policy and express value for linguistic diversity.