Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance |
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| Author:
| Wyman, Leisy |
| Series title: | Bilingual Education and Bilingualism Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-84769-740-0 |
| Publication Date: | May 2012 |
| Publisher: | Multilingual Matters
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $240.95 |
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.