Wyman Leisy - Youth Culture Language Endangerment And Linguistic Survivance - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Youth Culture Language Endangerment And Linguistic Survivance
Author(s): Wyman Leisy
Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
Barcode: 9781847697394
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 7/3/2012
Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
Category: Educational Strategies & Policy