DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Language Ideologies, Youth Culture and Socialization in a Central Alaskan Yup'ik Eskimo Village

土著语言现在正在以越来越快的速度消失。阿拉斯加西南部尤皮克爱斯基摩人村庄的活动家和教育工作者通过强调保护阿拉斯加中部尤皮克人作为丰富文化遗产的一部分的重要性，激励了语言复兴的努力。然而，由此产生的语言纯粹主义的意识形态观念污蔑了当前的年轻人语言实践，在对语言未来至关重要的说话者中造成了语言上的不安全感。本论文通过研究青少年如何在日常语言实践中感知、实施和/或重构语言意识形态，以及他们如何通过社会化网络影响幼儿的语言使用，来关注这一矛盾带来的影响。人种学和社会语言学方法将1)审查教育和法律政策背后关于双语和语言振兴的假设；2)展示这些政策如何在当地限制语言能力和学习能力的定义；3)记录来自四个核心家庭的12名双语青年(7-20岁)一年来在家庭和同龄人群组互动时的语言实践。研究结果通过详细描述青年文化如何影响双语社区的语言规范和意识形态的制定，为语言意识形态研究做出了贡献。语言规划者将发现这一案例研究是如何解释和部署语言意识形态的年轻人的语言振兴努力依赖。

Indigenous languages now disappear at an increasing rate. Activists and educators in a Yup'ik Eskimo village in southwestern Alaska motivate language revitalization efforts by emphasizing the importance of preserving Central Alaskan Yup'ik as part of a rich cultural heritage. Yet resulting ideological notions of linguistic purism stigmatize current youth language practices, creating linguistic insecurity in speakers crucial to the language's future. This dissertation focuses on effects of this contradiction by identifying how youth perceive, enact and/or reconfigure language ideologies in daily language practices, and how they influence younger children's language use through socialization networks. Ethnographic and sociolinguistic methods will 1) examine assumptions about bilingualism and language revitalization underlying educational and legal policies; 2) demonstrate how these policies constrain definitions of language ability and learn-ability locally and 3) document linguistic practices of 12 bilingual youth (ages 7-20) from four nuclear families as they interact in family and peer clusters over a year. Findings contribute to language ideology research by describing in detail how youth culture affects linguistic norms and ideology's enactment in bilingual communities. Language planners will find useful this case study of how language ideologies are interpreted and deployed by the young people on whom language revitalization efforts depend.