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.
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.