Indigenous Youth Migration and Language Contact
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21203554 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leisy Wyman (Beijing Language and Culture University, corresponding author), Leisy T Wyman |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 66-82 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Multilingual Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1931-3152 • E-ISSN: 1931-3160 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19313152.2013.748859 |
| OpenAlex | W2029926361 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 26 |
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. Spatiotemporally situating young migrants’ experiences joining different peer groups at different times, I highlight how young people's linguistic repertoires and everyday negotiations of peer belonging in Piniq were intimately related to the accumulating (trans)local impacts of migration and schooling in the small but highly complex village context. I also show how taking youth migration and intragenerational, longitudinal timescales into account in rapidly transforming sociolinguistic settings can help bring into focus the layered simultaneity (CitationBlommaert, 2005) of Indigenous youth language practice and the distributed nature of contemporary Indigenous linguistic ecologies. Implications for language planning are briefly discussed. I thank Shirley Brice Heath, Guadalupe Valdes, Penny Eckert, and Joshua Fishman for research guidance and Perry Gilmore, Norma González, Brendan O'Connor, Teresa McCarty, Jen Roth-Gordon, Sandra Soto, Doris Warriner, and anonymous reviewers for insightful feedback on earlier versions of this article. The research within was supported by a Spencer Foundation fellowship, a National Science Foundation Grant #BCS-0001914, and the University of Arizona College of Education. Mistakes are my own. Notes 1For a more detailed overview and list of related citations, see CitationGilmore and Wyman (in press). 2Excerpts of this interview segment and a fuller discussion of Mark's case appear in CitationWyman (2012)
Ideology · Indigenous · Language shift · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Gender Studies · History · Multilingual Education and Policy · Second Language Learning and Teaching
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| Citations per year | 0.45 |
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |