Youth culture, language endangerment and linguistic survivance / Leisy Thornton Wyman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyman, Leisy Thornton.

Series:

Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 85.

Bilingual education & bilingualism ; 85

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Bilingual--Alaska.

Education, Bilingual.

Yupik children--Languages.

Yupik children.

Yupik children--Education.

English language--Study and teaching--Alaska--Foreign speakers.

English language.

English language--Study and teaching--Yupik speakers.

Linguistic change--Alaska.

Linguistic change.

Alaska--Languages.

Alaska.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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 how the youth and adults in the study used multiple languages, literacies and translanguaging to sustain a unique subarctic way of life, Wyman illuminates Indigenous peoples’ wide-ranging forms of linguistic survivance in an interconnected world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Researching Indigenous Youth Language

2 Elders and Qanruyutait in Village Life

3 Educators, Schooling and Language Shift

4 The ‘Last Real Yup’ik Speakers’

5 Family Language Socialization in a Shifting Context

6 The ‘Get By’ Group

7 Subsistence, Gender and Storytelling in a Changing Linguistic Ecology

Conclusion

Epilogue: Educational Policies and Yup’ik Linguistic Ecologies a Decade Later

References

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-280-99880-6

9786613770417

1-84769-741-0

OCLC:

806204978