[Linganth] Shannon Ward's new book on language socialization in Tibet

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Shannon Ward's book has just been published -- and CaMP blog is celebrating
with an interview conducted by Hyemin Lee.

campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: In Amdo, a region of eastern Tibet incorporated into mainland
China, young children are being raised in a time of social change. In the
first decades of the twenty-first century, Chinese state development
policies are catalysing rural to urban migration, consolidating schooling
in urban centres, and leading Tibetan farmers and nomads to give up their
traditional livelihoods. As a result, children face increasing pressure to
adopt the state's official language of Mandarin.

*Amdo Lullaby* charts the contrasting language socialization trajectories
of rural and urban children from one extended family, who are native
speakers of a Tibetan language known locally as “Farmer Talk." By
integrating a fine-grained analysis of everyday conversations and oral
history interviews, linguistic anthropologist Shannon M. Ward examines the
forms of migration and resulting language contact that contribute to Farmer
Talk's unique grammatical structures, and that shape Amdo Tibetan
children's language choices. This analysis reveals that young children are
not passively abandoning their mother tongue for standard Mandarin, but
instead are reformatting traditional Amdo Tibetan cultural associations
among language, place, and kinship as they build their peer relationships
in everyday play.
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