Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance

Wyman (language, reading, and culture; U. of Arizona) draws on her work with Yup'ik communities in Alaska for over 20 years to share with educators and scholars information and insights into young people's language learning and language use. She discusses researching indigenous youth language; elders and qanruyutait in village life; educators, schooling, and language shift; the "last real Yup'ik speakers;" family language socialization in a shifting context; the "Get By" group; and subsistence, gender, and storytelling in a changing linguistic ecology. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Leisy Thornton Wyman has worked for over 20 years with Yup? ik communities in Alaska, and is an associate professor in the Language, Reading and Culture (LRC) program at the University of Arizona. Her scholarly works include a theme issue on Indigenous Youth and Bilingualism for the Journal of Language, Identity and Education (McCarty & Wyman, 2009), a forthcoming book on North American Indigenous youth language (Wyman et al, in progress), and a volume of Yup? ik elders' narratives, (Fredson et al., 1998). Her research appears in multiple edited volumes, the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Journal of American Indian Education, and World Studies in Education.