Youth culture, language endangerment and linguistic survivance /
Wyman, Leisy Thornton.
Youth culture, language endangerment and linguistic survivance / [Book] / Leisy Thornton Wyman. - Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, 2012. - xiii, 303 pages ; 22 cm. - Bilingual education & bilingualism; ; 85 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
Youth Culture and Linguistic Survivance 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 youth broker sociolinguistic transformation; and how Indigenous peoples? wide-ranging forms of linguistic survivance sustain unique lifeways in an interconnected world.
All.
9781847697400 (alk. paper) 9781847697394 (paperback : alk. paper) 9781847697417 (ebook)
2012009133
Education, Bilingual--Alaska.
Yupik children--Languages.
Yupik children--Education.
English language--Alaska--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
English language--Study and teaching--Yupik speakers.
Linguistic change--Alaska.
Alaska--Languages.
LC3733.A5 / W96 2012
370.11709798
Youth culture, language endangerment and linguistic survivance / [Book] / Leisy Thornton Wyman. - Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, 2012. - xiii, 303 pages ; 22 cm. - Bilingual education & bilingualism; ; 85 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and index.
Youth Culture and Linguistic Survivance 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 youth broker sociolinguistic transformation; and how Indigenous peoples? wide-ranging forms of linguistic survivance sustain unique lifeways in an interconnected world.
All.
9781847697400 (alk. paper) 9781847697394 (paperback : alk. paper) 9781847697417 (ebook)
2012009133
Education, Bilingual--Alaska.
Yupik children--Languages.
Yupik children--Education.
English language--Alaska--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.
English language--Study and teaching--Yupik speakers.
Linguistic change--Alaska.
Alaska--Languages.
LC3733.A5 / W96 2012
370.11709798