Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance |
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Author:
| Wyman, Leisy |
Series title: | Bilingual Education and Bilingualism Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-84769-739-4 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2012 |
Publisher: | Multilingual Matters
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $39.95USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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This book 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 youths broker sociolinguistic transformation; and how Indigenous peoples' wide-ranging forms of linguistic survivance sustain unique lifeways in an interconnected world.
This book 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 youths broker sociolinguistic transformation; and how Indigenous peoples' wide-ranging forms of linguistic survivance sustain unique lifeways in an interconnected world.