Eskimo language and Eskimo song in Alaska
Across Alaska, the popularity of indigenous forms of dance has risen, particularly in indigenous communities in which English dominates the heritage languages and Native youth have become monolingual English speakers. Some indigenous people say that Native dance accompanied by indigenous song is a w...
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crjohnbenjaminsp:10.1075/prag.20.2.03iku 2024-06-09T07:45:02+00:00 Eskimo language and Eskimo song in Alaska A sociolinguistics of deglobalisation in endangered language Ikuta, Hiroko 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.20.2.03iku http://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/prag.20.2.03iku.pdf en eng John Benjamins Publishing Company http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) Pragmatics / Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) Pragmatics page 171-189 ISSN 1018-2101 2406-4238 journal-article 2022 crjohnbenjaminsp https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.20.2.03iku 2024-05-15T13:26:46Z Across Alaska, the popularity of indigenous forms of dance has risen, particularly in indigenous communities in which English dominates the heritage languages and Native youth have become monolingual English speakers. Some indigenous people say that Native dance accompanied by indigenous song is a way of preserving their endangered languages. With two case studies from Alaskan Eskimo communities, Yupiget on St. Lawrence Island and Iñupiat in Barrow, this article explores how use of endangered languages among Alaskan Eskimos is related to the activity of performing Eskimo dance. I suggest that practice of Eskimo dancing and singing that local people value as an important linguistic resource can be considered as a de-globalised sociolinguistic phenomenon, a process of performance and localisation in which people construct a particular linguistic repertoire withdrawn from globalisable circulation in multilingualism. Article in Journal/Newspaper Barrow eskimo* St Lawrence Island Alaska John Benjamins Publishing Company Lawrence Island ENVELOPE(-103.718,-103.718,56.967,56.967) Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 20 2 171 189 |
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Across Alaska, the popularity of indigenous forms of dance has risen, particularly in indigenous communities in which English dominates the heritage languages and Native youth have become monolingual English speakers. Some indigenous people say that Native dance accompanied by indigenous song is a way of preserving their endangered languages. With two case studies from Alaskan Eskimo communities, Yupiget on St. Lawrence Island and Iñupiat in Barrow, this article explores how use of endangered languages among Alaskan Eskimos is related to the activity of performing Eskimo dance. I suggest that practice of Eskimo dancing and singing that local people value as an important linguistic resource can be considered as a de-globalised sociolinguistic phenomenon, a process of performance and localisation in which people construct a particular linguistic repertoire withdrawn from globalisable circulation in multilingualism. |
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Eskimo language and Eskimo song in Alaska |
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Eskimo language and Eskimo song in Alaska |
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Eskimo language and Eskimo song in Alaska |
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Eskimo language and Eskimo song in Alaska |
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John Benjamins Publishing Company |
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2022 |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.20.2.03iku http://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/prag.20.2.03iku.pdf |
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