Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance
Download or Read eBook Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance PDF written by Leisy Thornton Wyman and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2012 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Leisy Thornton Wyman |
| Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781847697394 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1847697399 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance by : Leisy Thornton Wyman
Book excerpt: 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.
