Globalization asserts increasing pressure on marginalized cultures and languages. While
faced with the pragmatic, often economic, need to communicate via global languages such as
English and Chinese, communities of non-dominant language users struggle to maintain or
reestablish their own cultural and linguistic practices. This thesis considers three areas of theory
to further inquiry into how revitalization contexts may operate within an increasingly borderless
world. The specific focus is the CHamoru/Chamorro revitalization context on Guåhan /Guam.
First, readers enter the discussion through the conduit of narrative theory which focuses on how
legends spanning generations may lend insight into how the dispositions of local inhabitants
developed. Second, affect theory is considered to illustrate how narratives are constructed about
the future through fear and anxiety. Third, revitalization rhetoric and the emergent theory of
translingualism are addressed as they lie at the intersection of narratives about the past and future.
The thesis works to initiate conversations between theories which previously worked apart from
one another in a context infrequently considered in an effort to establish a foundation for future
research and activism on the the island of Guåhan
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/15057462 |
| Date | 27 July 2021 |
| Creators | Curtis Jeffrey Jewell (11186172) |
| Source Sets | Purdue University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis |
| Rights | CC BY 4.0 |
| Relation | https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/CHamoru_Uncertainty_Revitalization_Rhetoric_in_Decolonial_Settings/15057462 |
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