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Leisy Thornton Wyman - Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance - 9781847697394 - V9781847697394
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Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance

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Description for Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance Paperback. This book documents a decade of life and language use in a remote Alaskan Yup'ik community. It illuminates how schooling and migration shape complex linguistic ecologies; how youths broker sociolinguistic transformation; and how Indigenous peoples' wide-ranging forms of linguistic survivance sustain unique lifeways in an interconnected world. Series: Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: CFDM; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 208 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.

Detailing a decade of life and language use in a remote Alaskan Yup'ik community, Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance provides rare insight into young people's language brokering and Indigenous people's contemporary linguistic ecologies. This book examines how two consecutive groups of youth in a Yup'ik village negotiated eroding heritage language learning resources, changing language ideologies, and gendered subsistence practices while transforming community language use over time. Wyman shows how villagers used specific Yup'ik forms, genres, and discourse practices to foster learning in and out of school, underscoring the stakes of language endangerment. At the same time, by demonstrating ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847697394
SKU
V9781847697394
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Leisy Thornton Wyman
Leisy Thornton Wyman has worked for over 20 years with Yup’ik communities in Alaska, and is an associate professor in the Language, Reading and Culture (LRC) program at the University of Arizona. Her scholarly works include a theme issue on Indigenous Youth and Bilingualism for the Journal of Language, Identity and Education (McCarty & Wyman, 2009), a forthcoming book on ... Read more

Reviews for Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance
Based on two decades of work with the Alaska Native village of “Piniq,” Leisy Wyman’s masterful ethnography reveals the complex ways in which youth peer culture and family language policies intersect with those of the school, how youth “talk back” to pressures of language shift, and the far-reaching impacts of tacit and official policies on a community’s linguistic future….A beautifully ... Read more

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