ISBN:
9780192633583
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
306.440973
Keywords:
Linguistics
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book introduces a new and still emerging theoretical framework for understanding language shift and uses this approach to explore a range of minority language communities in the United States. It includes specific case studies of individual communities as well as commentary chapters that provide a broader perspective.
Abstract:
Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- The Contributors -- 1 A verticalization theory of language shift -- 2 Politics and cooperatives: Verticalization in rural Finnish-American communities of the Upper Midwest -- 3 The Great Change in Midwestern agriculture: Verticalization in Wisconsin German and Wisconsin West Frisian heritage communities -- 4 The Great Change and the shift from Norwegian to English in Ulen, Minnesota -- 5 Language shift and religious change in Central Pennsylvania -- 6 Internal verticalization and community maintenance: The story of North Carolina Cherokee -- 7 The verticalization model of language shift from a population-structure perspective: A commentary -- 8 The verticalization model of language shift from a historical sociolinguistic perspective: A commentary -- 9 Reflecting on the commentaries -- References -- Index.
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