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Chapter 10. Decolonial sociolinguistics gestures of Andean Quechua-Spanish bilingual college students promoting Quechua

  • Yuliana Kenfield
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Variation and Evolution
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Abstract

Andean college students in Cusco, Peru, struggle to overcome sociolinguistic discrimination against Quechua-Spanish bilingualism during their pursuit of higher education. To examine this situation and possibilities for change, I employed a participatory method, photovoice (Wang & Burris, 1994) within a community-based participatory research framework, to facilitate bilingual college students’ exploration of Quechuan practices in their university. Findings of this participatory study explain how bilingual participants contributed to community critical awareness of Quechua-Spanish bilingual ideologies in Cusco when presenting their visual metaphors during photo interventions. Participants shared personal experiences to maintaining their Quechua language and shared their proposals for encouraging their university to create a fertile terrain for bilingualism, rooting out ideologies of deficits toward Quechua, and promoting Quechuan practices in college.

Abstract

Andean college students in Cusco, Peru, struggle to overcome sociolinguistic discrimination against Quechua-Spanish bilingualism during their pursuit of higher education. To examine this situation and possibilities for change, I employed a participatory method, photovoice (Wang & Burris, 1994) within a community-based participatory research framework, to facilitate bilingual college students’ exploration of Quechuan practices in their university. Findings of this participatory study explain how bilingual participants contributed to community critical awareness of Quechua-Spanish bilingual ideologies in Cusco when presenting their visual metaphors during photo interventions. Participants shared personal experiences to maintaining their Quechua language and shared their proposals for encouraging their university to create a fertile terrain for bilingualism, rooting out ideologies of deficits toward Quechua, and promoting Quechuan practices in college.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Social and linguistic factors shaping language dynamics across the Spanish-speaking world 1
  4. Part I. Morpho-syntax & semantics
  5. Chapter 1. Cross-dialectal productivity of the Spanish subjunctive in nominal clause complements 11
  6. Chapter 2. Mood selection in a contact variety 33
  7. Chapter 3. A corpus analysis of the structural elaboration of Spanish heritage language learners 55
  8. Chapter 4. Evidentiality and epistemic modality in the Andean Spanish verb 75
  9. Part II. Phonetics & phonology
  10. Chapter 5. Realizations of /b/ in the Spanish of Lima, Peru 107
  11. Chapter 6. Did you say peso or beso ? 127
  12. Chapter 7. Sheísmo in Montevideo Spanish 163
  13. Part III. Language attitudes & choice
  14. Chapter 8. ‘Debemos aprender y manejar un poco mejor el español’ 189
  15. Chapter 9. Language choice and use by bilingual preschoolers 211
  16. Chapter 10. Decolonial sociolinguistics gestures of Andean Quechua-Spanish bilingual college students promoting Quechua 231
  17. Chapter 11. New Mochica and the challenge of reviving an extinct language 253
  18. Index 275
https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.29.10ken

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. Social and linguistic factors shaping language dynamics across the Spanish-speaking world 1
  4. Part I. Morpho-syntax & semantics
  5. Chapter 1. Cross-dialectal productivity of the Spanish subjunctive in nominal clause complements 11
  6. Chapter 2. Mood selection in a contact variety 33
  7. Chapter 3. A corpus analysis of the structural elaboration of Spanish heritage language learners 55
  8. Chapter 4. Evidentiality and epistemic modality in the Andean Spanish verb 75
  9. Part II. Phonetics & phonology
  10. Chapter 5. Realizations of /b/ in the Spanish of Lima, Peru 107
  11. Chapter 6. Did you say peso or beso ? 127
  12. Chapter 7. Sheísmo in Montevideo Spanish 163
  13. Part III. Language attitudes & choice
  14. Chapter 8. ‘Debemos aprender y manejar un poco mejor el español’ 189
  15. Chapter 9. Language choice and use by bilingual preschoolers 211
  16. Chapter 10. Decolonial sociolinguistics gestures of Andean Quechua-Spanish bilingual college students promoting Quechua 231
  17. Chapter 11. New Mochica and the challenge of reviving an extinct language 253
  18. Index 275
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