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This book deals with the tension between a strategy of language maintenance (protecting and reinforcing the language where it is still spoken by community members) and a strategy of language revitalization (opening up access to the language to all interested people and encouraging new domains of its use). The case study presented concerns a grammar school in Upper Lusatia, which hosts the coexistence of a community of Upper Sorbian-speakers and a group of German native speakers who are learning Upper Sorbian at school. The tensions between these two groups studying at the same school are presented in this book against the background of various language strategies, practices and ideologies. The conflict of interests between the "traditional" community which perceives itself as the "guardians" of the minority language and its potential new speakers is played off on different levels by policy-makers and may be read through different levels of language policy and planning

The Berlinka Collection / Monika Jaglarz -- Manuscripta Americana and the Provenance of Mss. Amer. 3, 8, and 10 / Monika Jaglarz and Julia Madajczak -- Mss. Amer. 3, 8, and 10 in Relation to the Marquesado Census Corpus / Julia Madajczak -- Mss. Amer. 3, 8, and 10: The Scribes / Szymon Gruda -- The Creation and History of the Tepoztlan Census / Julia Madajczak, Szymon Gruda and Monika Jaglarz -- The Jagiellonian Library Census Fragments in Numbers / José Luis de Rojas -- Family Relations in Tepoztlan / Katarzyna Granicka -- Administrative Structure and Social Groups in Tepoztlan / Julia Madajczak -- Land and Tribute in the Jagiellonian Library Census Fragments / José Luis de Rojas -- Glossary of Nahuatl Terms / Julia Madajczak and José Luis de Rojas -- Conventions for the Transcription of the Jagiellonian Library Census Fragments / Julia Madajczak and José Luis de Rojas -- Transcription and Translation / Julia Madajczak and José Luis de Rojas.

"A critical anthology of indigenous-authored texts, including Nahua, Quechua, and Spanish which native peoples and Spaniards convey their perspectives on Spanish colonial order. The first volume with native testimonies of Spanish expansion and examines geographically and culturally realities of indigenous elites in the colonial period"--Provided by publisher