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MORRIS BERMUDEZ, Roberto. In the multicultural edge: A linguistic political evaluation of the Mexican State around its indigenous communities. CONfines relacion. internaci. ciencia política [online]. 2007, vol.3, n.5, pp.59-73. ISSN 1870-3569.

The goal of this dissertation is to assess to what extent Mexican language policy towards indigenous minorities is congruent with the guidelines that multicultural, language policy and language planning theory prescribe. These theories were chosen because current legislation indicates that these are the ideals which Mexico, as a country, The aim of this research is to present a comparison of current Mexican multicultural language policies and how these diverge from multicultural theory, this in order to make inferences applicable to further developing multicultural language policies in Mexico.

Palabras llave : minorities; multiculturalism; language planning; language rights; vernacular languages; indigenous people; language policy; education.

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