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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance
Written By: Leisy T. Wyman
URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?k=9781847697394
Series Title: Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Description:

Detailing a decade of life and language use in a remote Alaskan Yup’ik community, "Youth Culture, Language Endangerment and Linguistic Survivance" provides rare insight into young people's language brokering and Indigenous people's contemporary linguistic ecologies. This book examines how two consecutive groups of youth in a Yup’ik village negotiated eroding heritage language learning resources, changing language ideologies, and gendered subsistence practices while transforming community language use over time. Wyman shows how villagers used specific Yup’ik forms, genres, and discourse practices to foster learning in and out of school, underscoring the stakes of language endangerment. At the same time, by demonstrating how the youth and adults in the study used multiple languages, literacies and translanguaging to sustain a unique subarctic way of life, Wyman illuminates Indigenous peoples’ wide-ranging forms of linguistic survivance in an interconnected world.

Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
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Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
Sociolinguistics
Anthropological Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Yupik, Central

Versions:
Format: Hardback
ISBN-13: 9781847697400
Pages: 304
Prices: U.S. $ 159.95
U.K. £ 99.95

 
 
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781847697394
Pages: 304
Prices: U.K. £ 29.95
U.S. $ 49.95