Old Jokes and New Multiculturalisms: Continuity and Change in Vernacular Discourse on the Yucatec Maya Language
Old Jokes and New Multiculturalisms: Continuity and Change in Vernacular Discourse on the Yucatec Maya Language
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老笑话与新多元文化主义：尤卡坦玛雅语言白话话语的延续与变化
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10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01138.x
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2009
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Fernando Armstrong
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Fernando Armstrong
摘要近年来，许多关于拉丁美洲土著身份政治的文献都强调了关于种族公民身份的新话语的出现。 然而，国家支持的验证和振兴尤卡坦玛雅语言的努力与尤卡坦农村人相关的方式，反映了更古老的关于语言使用与现代性之间关系的当地叙述的连续性。将当代参与多元文化语言政策置于更广泛的本地有意义的语言实践历史中，使土著语言社区的一般模式复杂化，这种模式为最近许多拉丁美洲身份政治研究提供了信息，并重新构建了强调本质主义或纯粹主义的新兴形式与身份形成的更传统手段之间的对比的学术辩论。这反过来又提出了新的途径，通过这些途径可以为讲土著语言的不同社区构想多文化和多语言政策。
ABSTRACT Much recent literature on indigenous identity politics in Latin America has emphasized the emergence of new discourses on ethnic citizenship. However, the ways in which state-sponsored efforts to validate and revitalize the Yucatec Maya language become relevant to rural Yucatecans reflect far more continuity with older local narratives about the relationship between language use and modernity. Situating contemporary engagements with multicultural language policies within a broader history of locally meaningful language practices complicates the general model of indigenous language communities that has informed many recent studies of Latin American identity politics and reframes scholarly debates that have emphasized contrasts between emergent forms of essentialism or purism and more-traditional means of identity formation. This, in turn, suggests new routes through which multicultural and multilingual policies can be conceptualized for heterogeneous communities of indigenous language speakers.