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Words Like Birds Sakha Language Discourses and Practices in the City
Uniform Title
Khanna bardyng?
Title
Words Like Birds [electronic resource] : Sakha Language Discourses and Practices in the City / Jenanne Ferguson.
ISBN
149621241X
9781496212412
9781496208880
Published
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Notes
Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Aberdeen University, 2013, titled Khanna bardyng? = Where are you going? : rural-urban connections and the fluidity of communicative practices among Sakha-Russian speakers.
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Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
Project MUSE - 2019 Language and Linguistics
Project MUSE - 2019 Russian and East European Studies
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2019
Series
Borderlands and transcultural studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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