23.2923, Books: Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance: Wyman

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From: Elinor Robertson [marketing at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance: Wyman

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Title: Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance 
Series Title: Bilingual Education and Bilingualism  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?k=9781847697394 


Author: Leisy T. Wyman

Hardback: ISBN:  9781847697400 Pages: 304 Price: U.S. $ 159.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781847697400 Pages: 304 Price: U.K. £ 99.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781847697394 Pages: 304 Price: U.K. £ 29.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781847697394 Pages: 304 Price: U.S. $ 49.95


Abstract:

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. 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Yupik, Central (esu)


Written In: English  (eng)

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