Language Ideologies at Work:Economies of Yupik Language Maintenance and Loss

Using an ethnography of speaking approach, this article discusses the ideological aspects of language practices, as they are played out in a traditional Yupik (Eskimo) village in Chukotka, in the Far East of the Russian Federation. The article shows how local linguistic practices and language choice...

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Published in:Sibirica
Main Author: Schwalbe, Daria
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2015
Subjects:
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Faculty of Humanities
Chukotka
Russia
Siberia
Language ideologies
Language change
language attitudes
identities
identitetspolitik
sprogpolitik
Interaction
heritage language
Indigenous people
purism
post-soviet studies
Codeswitching
eskimo*
Sibirica
Yupik
Online Access:https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/language-ideologies-at-work(63102633-745d-4dd6-8a8c-70f79be04c96).html
https://doi.org/10.3167/sib.2015.140301
https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/publications/6813ad74-c1e4-49da-b5c3-ff24dbc9642a
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Summary:Using an ethnography of speaking approach, this article discusses the ideological aspects of language practices, as they are played out in a traditional Yupik (Eskimo) village in Chukotka, in the Far East of the Russian Federation. The article shows how local linguistic practices and language choices of individual speakers intersect with purist language ideologies, which frame certain beliefs about languages and ways of speaking, making them appear more normal and appropriate than others. Placing the “work of speaking” within the context of cross-cultural dynamics and purist language economies, this article challenges the basic assumption of linguistic purism about language and identity being intertwined.

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