scholarly journals Nahuatl and Spanish in Contact: Language Practices in Mexico

Languages ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Grace A. Gomashie
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Maintenance ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
The Public ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
Educational Domain ◽  
Contact Language ◽  
Survey Approach

The study reports on adults’ linguistic use of Nahuatl in the bilingual community of Santiago Tlaxco, Mexico. Using a survey approach, adults were asked to indicate their language choices (i.e., Spanish, Nahuatl or both languages) when interacting with people in various linguistic domains including personal, public, occupational, and educational. Findings showed that Nahuatl was used predominately with family members, with the exception of children aged 12 and younger with whom bilingual use was the norm. Similarly, in the public domain, bilingual language use was preferred for interactions with young people (less than 18 years), indicating a trend toward a gradual displacement of Nahuatl. However, Nahuatl was still the preferred language for interactions in the occupational domain, in places of worship and within social circles. Spanish was preferred for the educational domain, at the clinic, and in unfamiliar settings, such as with strangers. While adult use of Nahuatl facilitates language maintenance, there is a need for increased intergenerational transmission. Results are discussed in the context of language planning.

scholarly journals Talking About Youth: The Depoliticization of Young People in the Public Domain

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 591-607
Author(s):  
Marco Giugni ◽  
Maria Grasso
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Young People ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Claims Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
Political Agents ◽  
Cross National

In this article, we employ data from comparative claims analysis of five major newspapers in nine European countries between 2010 and 2016 to examine discourse around youth. We look at the ways in which collective actors frame youth in the public domain and how this may provide discursive opportunities understood in terms of the extent to which public discourse portrays young people as agents of social change. More specifically, we argue that young people are depoliticized in the public domain. We find that public statements and more generally public discourse about youth tend to depict them as actors who do not have political aims or to focus on other, nonpolitical characteristics. Our exploratory analysis shows that, while youth are fairly present as actors in the public domain, they are only rarely addressed or discussed in political terms. Moreover, where they are addressed politically, it is in negative terms, with few political claims. At the same time, we observe important cross-national variations, whereby the depoliticization process looks to be further matured in some countries relative to others. This process of depoliticization of youth in the public domain, in turn, has important implications on their potential for acting as political agents and for their political activism.

Claiming and Framing Youth in the Public Domain During Times of Increasing Inequalities

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 567-573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Kousis ◽  
Marco Giugni
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Claims Analysis ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Political Exclusion ◽  
The Media

Aiming to contribute to research on youth representation in the mainstream media, this special issue provides eight articles offering fresh empirical comparative analyses of the ways in which young people as well as issues concerning them are dealt with in the public domain. Applying political claims analysis on original data from the EURYKA project (European Commission, Horizon 2020), the special issue is focused on how youth-related claims are raised in the media by youth and nonyouth actors during a period of increasing inequalities and social and political exclusion, how young people’s ways of doing politics are dealt with in the media, and to what extent organized youth and contestation are visible in the public domain.

The Maintenance of Bahasa Simalungun in Kecamatan Gunung Maligas

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enni Erawati Saragih ◽  
Amrin Saragih ◽  
Sri Minda Murni
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Maintenance ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Parent Attitudes ◽  
Language Endangerment ◽  
Educational Domain ◽  
Wedding Ceremony

The objective of this study is to identify levels of language endangerment of BahasaSimalungun (BS), to ascertain the domains which are needed proportionally to be managed by the speakers to maintain and to ascertain the ways can be done by the BSS in maintaining BS. This study was based on qualitative approach. Interviews and questionnaire are used as instrument of data. The data were collected by interviewing 22 Simalungunese comprising of second and first generation. The data were analyzed with reference to the theory six levels of language endangerment by UNESCO and Language Use domain by Fishman.The findings showed (1) BS is in the stage of risk up to nearly extinct, this was caused by intermarriage, residence in non Simalungun family and parent attitudes,(2) BS needs to be proportionally managed because most of them are shy to learn and use BS in their daily life, and (3) 20 options offered to maintain BS and18 options were agreed by using BS in wedding ceremony (family domain), using BS in IKEIS (friendship domain), using BS in Perwiritan (religion domain), learn BS as Mulok (educational domain), and using BS in selling and buying activity (employment domain). Key words: Language maintenance; Language endangerment.

scholarly journals Debates on youth participation: from citizens in preparation to active social agents

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Tsekoura
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Young People ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Participatory Decision Making ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Debates

Abstract This article presents current debates regarding the presence of young people in the public domain. There is a wealth of discussion and perplexity regarding how young people choose to get active in the public domain that originates from the distinct use of the term political in academic and policy debates. This article will proceed in the following way: it will summarise the main tenets of the Decline discourse, it will present how the Personalisation discourse draw our attention to alternative ways of involvement, it will discuss how Context focused discourses highlight how participatory decision making relates to the ways young people conceptualise their daily lived experience, and concludes arguing that youth participation can be better understood when it is contextualised within everyday lived experience.

scholarly journals Developing a methodology for public engagement with critical research

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-231
Author(s):  
Ruth Boyask ◽  
Katy Vigurs
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
Policy Influence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Starting Point

In this article we argue that a refined understanding of ‘public’ and ‘public engagement’ can help researchers who produce critical research make better decisions towards achieving policy influence. We acknowledge the challenges critical researchers face in putting their research to work within the public domain. Critical research struggles to gain influence in bounded public spheres where research is valued as a consumable commodity rather than for its integrity or capacity for informing change. A starting point for developing a method of engagement is to understand better ‘publics’ and the different ways they may be conceptualised. We draw on a framework of three conceptualisations of the public in public engagement: bounded, normative and emergent. We use this framework to analyse our own experience of public engagement and attempts at policy influence in the Respecting Children and Young People Project. Through this analysis we recognise alternative ways to conceive of publics that may direct us away from some courses of action, and open new possibilities for public engagement with critical research.

Rewritten or Reused? Originality, Intertextuality, and Reuse in the Writings of a Buddhist Visionary in Contemporary Tibet

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 203-231
Author(s):  
Antonio Terrone
Keyword(s):  
Public Domain ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Way

The study of Buddhist texts can inform us of the way scriptures were composed, as well as illuminate the reasons behind their production. This study examines the phenomenon of borrowing and reusing portions of texts without attributing them to their ‘legitimate authors’ within the Buddhist world of contemporary Tibet. It shows that not only is such a practice not at all infrequent and is often socially accepted, but that it is used in this case as a platform to advance specific claims and promote an explicit agenda. Therefore, rather than considering these as instances of plagiarism, this essay looks at the practice of copying and borrowing as an exercise in intertextuality, intended as the faithful retransmission of ancient truths, and as an indication of the public domain of texts in Tibet.

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