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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nájera, Cinthia Jazmín López
• Castillo, Olivia Castillo
• García, Guillermo Carrera

Titel

THE VALUATION OF THE LANGUAGE IN BILINGUAL SPEAKERS (NÁHUATL-SPANISH.). A CASE STUDY

Ist Teil von

• Vivat academia (Alcalá de Henares), 2016-09, Vol.19 (136), p.21

Ort / Verlag

Madrid: Revista Vivat Academia

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The vitality of a language depends on its native speakers, but, what happens when these native speakers decide to stop using it? This article shows the first results of the study made among bilingual speakers (Náhuatl-Spanish) from the community of San Miguel Canoa, State of Puebla in Mexico, where more than 60% of the population know the Náhuatl language (National Institute of Statistics and Geography, INEGI, 2010.) At the same time, it states that the active users of the language are people over 25 years old. The analysis of this work (Appraisal Theory) shows a meaningful correlation between the loss of language (Náhuatl) and its valuation made by the native speakers.