Chapter 6 Centralization vs. local initiatives. Mexican and U.S. legislation of Amerindian languages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 2
2. Contents 6
3. Part I. History and theory
4. Chapter 1 Mexican indigenous languagesin the twenty-first century 16
5. Chapter 2 The Indianization of Spaniards in New Spain 42
6. Chapter 3 The multiple dimensions of language maintenance and shift in colonial Mexico 66
7. Chapter 4 Socio-historical determinants in the survival of Mexican indigenous languages 100
8. Part II. Language policy
9. Chapter 5 Legislating diversity in twenty-first century Mexico 140
10. Chapter 6 Centralization vs. local initiatives. Mexican and U.S. legislation of Amerindian languages 180
11. Chapter 7 The Mexican indigenous languages and the national censuses: 1970–2000 204
12. Part III. Bilingualism and bilingual education
13. Chapter 8 Local language promoters and new discursive spaces: Mexicano in and out of schools in Tlaxcala 262
14. Chapter 9 Bilingual education: Strategy for language maintenance or shift of Yucatec Maya? 294
15. Chapter 10 Intervention in indigenous education. Culturally-sensitive materials for bilingual Nahuatl speakers 314
16. Chapter 11 Stages of bilingualism. Local conversational practices among Mazahuas 338
17. IV. Conclusions
18. Chapter 12 Language policy. Past, present, and future 370
19. Backmatter 390