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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779376203321

Autore

Wyman Leisy Thornton

Titolo

Youth culture, language endangerment and linguistic survivance [[electronic resource] /] / Leisy Thornton Wyman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, 2012

ISBN

1-280-99880-6

9786613770417

1-84769-741-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Collana

Bilingual education & bilingualism ; ; 85

Disciplina

370.11709798

Soggetti

Education, Bilingual - Alaska

Yupik children - Languages

Yupik children - Education

English language - Study and teaching - Alaska - Foreign speakers

English language - Study and teaching - Yupik speakers

Linguistic change - Alaska

Alaska Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.