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Parks, Elizabeth – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2015
Linguistic ideologies that are left unquestioned and unexplored, especially as reflected and produced in marginalized language communities, can contribute to inequality made real in decisions about languages and the people who use them. One of the primary bodies of knowledge guiding international language policy is the International Organization…
Descriptors: Language Usage, International Cooperation, Standards, Discourse Analysis
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Tree, Erich Fox – Sign Language Studies, 2009
This article examines sign languages that belong to a complex of indigenous sign languages in Mesoamerica that K'iche'an Maya people of Guatemala refer to collectively as Meemul Tziij. It explains the relationship between the Meemul Tziij variety of the Yukatek Maya village of Chican (state of Yucatan, Mexico) and the hitherto undescribed Meemul…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Maya (People), Sign Language, Foreign Countries