Leisy Wyman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6750027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leisy Wyman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leisy |
| FAMILY NAME | Wyman |
| SIGNATURE | WYMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
(0) Years Out and Counting
Fifty years after the U.S. Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act (CRA), Native Americans continue to fight for the right “to remain an Indian” (Lomawaima & McCarty, 2006) against a backdrop of test-driven language policies that threaten to destabilize proven bilingual programs and violate hard-fought language rights protections such as the Native American Languages Act of 1990/1992. In this article we focus on the “four Rs” of Indigenous lang…
Indigenous Youth Migration and Language Contact
Few studies ethnographically detail how Indigenous young people's mobility intersects with sociolinguistic transformation in an interconnected world. Drawing on a decade-long study of youth and language contact, I analyze Yup'ik young people's migration in relation to emerging language ideologies and patterns of language use in “Piniq,” (pseudonym), a Yup'ik village in Alaska, as villagers experienced a rapid language shift to English. Spatiotemp…
Experiences of Simultaneity in Complex Linguistic Ecologies
Sociolinguists have made considerable headway in identifying and describing the relationship between mobility, linguistic resources, and forms of inequality. Despite such advances, however, we argue that it is as important as ever to continue to rethink what kinds of phenomena are analyzed, the distinctions and categories that might be imposed on the data collected, and the theoretical and methodological approaches used to pursue that inquiry. Th…
Re-emplacing Place in the “Global Here and Now”—Critical Ethnographic Case Studies of Native American Language Planning and Policy
In Native American communities, the “global here and now” (Appadurai, 2001 Appadurai, A. 2001. “Grassroots globalization and the research imagination”. In Globalization, Edited by: Appadurai, A. 1–21. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. [Google Scholar]) is linked to twin movements for standardization and English supremacy, resulting in the decline of Indigenous languages and persistent educational disparities. This article takes up Appadurai's ca…
High stakes testing, bilingual education and language endangerment
A growing body of research documents how educational policies and accountability systems can open or close ‘ideological and implementational spaces’ for bilingual education, shaping the language planning efforts of Indigenous communities. Using collaborative research, Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers investigated the intersection of policy, schooling, and language maintenance/shift within a school district serving 22 Yup'ik villages in A…
Indigenous Youth and Bilingualism—Theory, Research, Praxis
In this introduction, we situate the theme issue within a growing body of research on Indigenous youth language practices, communicative repertoires, and ideologies, articulating points of intersection in scholarship on Indigenous and immigrant youth bilingualism. Our geographic focus is North America. Ethnographic studies from the Far North to Mexico counter stereotypical assumptions that Indigenous youth simply orient away from local community …
Youth, Linguistic Ecology, and Language Endangerment
Using data from a longitudinal study, this article traces how in- and out-of-school processes placed youth at the center of a community language tip into English in Piniq, a Yup'ik village in Alaska. During an early phase of language tip, youth underscored bilingual connections to community and place through storytelling with peers. Yet youth were also experiencing linguistic insecurities and losing forms that marked a linguistic orientation to l…
When Indigenous and Modern Education Collide
Youth, Linguistic Ecology, and Language Endangerment
Using data from a longitudinal study, this article traces how in- and out-of-school processes placed youth at the center of a community language tip into English in Piniq, a Yup'ik village in Alaska. During an early phase of language tip, youth underscored bilingual connections to community and place through storytelling with peers. Yet youth were also experiencing linguistic insecurities and losing forms that marked a linguistic orientation to l…
Indigenous Youth and Bilingualism—Theory, Research, Praxis
In this introduction, we situate the theme issue within a growing body of research on Indigenous youth language practices, communicative repertoires, and ideologies, articulating points of intersection in scholarship on Indigenous and immigrant youth bilingualism. Our geographic focus is North America. Ethnographic studies from the Far North to Mexico counter stereotypical assumptions that Indigenous youth simply orient away from local community …
When Indigenous and Modern Education Collide
Indigenous Youth and Bilingualism—Theory, Research, Praxis
In this introduction, we situate the theme issue within a growing body of research on Indigenous youth language practices, communicative repertoires, and ideologies, articulating points of intersection in scholarship on Indigenous and immigrant youth bilingualism. Our geographic focus is North America. Ethnographic studies from the Far North to Mexico counter stereotypical assumptions that Indigenous youth simply orient away from local community …
Youth, Linguistic Ecology, and Language Endangerment
Using data from a longitudinal study, this article traces how in- and out-of-school processes placed youth at the center of a community language tip into English in Piniq, a Yup'ik village in Alaska. During an early phase of language tip, youth underscored bilingual connections to community and place through storytelling with peers. Yet youth were also experiencing linguistic insecurities and losing forms that marked a linguistic orientation to l…
High stakes testing, bilingual education and language endangerment
A growing body of research documents how educational policies and accountability systems can open or close ‘ideological and implementational spaces’ for bilingual education, shaping the language planning efforts of Indigenous communities. Using collaborative research, Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers investigated the intersection of policy, schooling, and language maintenance/shift within a school district serving 22 Yup'ik villages in A…
Re-emplacing Place in the “Global Here and Now”—Critical Ethnographic Case Studies of Native American Language Planning and Policy
In Native American communities, the “global here and now” (Appadurai, 2001 Appadurai, A. 2001. “Grassroots globalization and the research imagination”. In Globalization, Edited by: Appadurai, A. 1–21. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. [Google Scholar]) is linked to twin movements for standardization and English supremacy, resulting in the decline of Indigenous languages and persistent educational disparities. This article takes up Appadurai's ca…
Indigenous Youth Migration and Language Contact
Few studies ethnographically detail how Indigenous young people's mobility intersects with sociolinguistic transformation in an interconnected world. Drawing on a decade-long study of youth and language contact, I analyze Yup'ik young people's migration in relation to emerging language ideologies and patterns of language use in “Piniq,” (pseudonym), a Yup'ik village in Alaska, as villagers experienced a rapid language shift to English. Spatiotemp…
Experiences of Simultaneity in Complex Linguistic Ecologies
Sociolinguists have made considerable headway in identifying and describing the relationship between mobility, linguistic resources, and forms of inequality. Despite such advances, however, we argue that it is as important as ever to continue to rethink what kinds of phenomena are analyzed, the distinctions and categories that might be imposed on the data collected, and the theoretical and methodological approaches used to pursue that inquiry. Th…
(0) Years Out and Counting
Fifty years after the U.S. Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act (CRA), Native Americans continue to fight for the right “to remain an Indian” (Lomawaima & McCarty, 2006) against a backdrop of test-driven language policies that threaten to destabilize proven bilingual programs and violate hard-fought language rights protections such as the Native American Languages Act of 1990/1992. In this article we focus on the “four Rs” of Indigenous lang…
Linguistics (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)