Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance

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.

A propos de l'auteur

Leisy Thornton Wyman has worked for over 20 years with Yupâ€(TM)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 North American Indigenous youth language (Wyman et al, in progress), and a volume of Yupâ€(TM)ik elders' narratives, (Fredson et al., 1998). Her research appears in multiple edited volumes, the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Journal of American Indian Education, and World Studies in Education.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Leisy Wyman, Leisy Thornton Wyman
• Edition: Channel View Publications Ltd
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 03.07.2012
• EAN: 9781847697400
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-740-0
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions: 214 mm x 164 mm x 22 mm
• Poids: 524 g
• Thèmes: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism; Bilingual Education and Biling; Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique générale et comparée