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Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Av Leisy Wyman

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-07-03
Mått148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt520 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBilingual Education & Bilingualism
Antal sidor320
FörlagChannel View Publications Ltd
ISBN9781847697400

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Leisy Thornton Wyman has worked for over 20 years with Yupâik 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 Yupâik 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.

Introduction Chapter 1: Researching Indigenous Youth Language Chapter 2: Elders and Qanruyutait in Village Life Chapter 3: Educators, Schooling and Language Shift Chapter 4: The “Last Real Yup’ik Speakers” Chapter 5: Family Language Socialization in a Shifting Context Chapter 6: The “Get By Group” Chapter 7: Subsistence, Gender and Storytelling in a Changing Linguistic Ecology Conclusion Epilogue: Educational Policies and Yup’ik Linguistic Ecologies a Decade Later

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 written sociolinguistic portrait of one community’s fight for linguistic, cultural, and educational self-determination, and a “must read” for language scholars and practitioners alike.