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Fall 2009

McGraw, Rachel

The present research describes the sociolinguistic situation in the minority indigenous community of San Juan Ozelonacaxtla in the state of Puebla, Mexico. Both Ozelonacaxtla Totonac and Spanish are spoken in the speech community. However, some bilingual parents use only Spanish in the home

. Parents claim they teach their children Spanish because it is more useful than Ozelonacaxtla Totonac, it enables their children to avoid discrimination associated with speaking an indigenous language, it is necessary for their children to do well in school, and it allows for more economic mobility. These

Spring 2024

McGraw, Rachel IL

ideologies (Phillips 2010: 53; Silverstein 2003: 202). Through essentialist ideologies, speaking Huehuetla Totonac is equated with being Indigenous, and speaking Spanish is equated with being mestizo, or non-Indigenous. Syncretic language ideologies merge an ideological opposition between languages and

Spring 2024

Moore, Devin

Recording and transcribing textual material is a critical part of documentary and descriptive linguistics. The advantages of text collection in minority language communities are recognised to extend beyond linguistics and texts offer a valuable record of the community’s oral history. Although...