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Words like birds : Sakha language discourses and practices in the city /

"An analysis of Sakha linguistic sensibilities and practices in the urban space of Yakutsk, capital of the Sakha Republic, based on research conducted in the early twenty-first century"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ferguson, Jenanne, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
Series:Borderlands and transcultural studies.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a short history of Sakha
  • We have always been adaptable: frameworks for Sakha language vitality
  • Sakha under the tsars and beyond: language policies and communicative norms
  • Sweet cream and lingonberries: language, spirits, and sustenance
  • One drop traveling along a great artery: moving the ulus to the city
  • Sakhalyy in the city: language mixing and indexing authenticity
  • Acquiring Russian, maintaining Sakha: language choices and life trajectorie
  • Ohuokhaj in Lenin Square, hip hop in virtual Tuhulgeter: adapting new spaces for Sakha
  • Conclusion: words like birds.