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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Joshua R. Brown is Professor of German and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. He is primarily interested in heritage languages, language maintenance and shift, multilingualism, and historical sociolinguistics. His work has appeared in the Journal of Language Contact , Critical Multilingualism Studies, and American Speech, among others. He is the co-editor of Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia (with Simon J. Bronner; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017) and editor of a special issue of the Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics focusing on heritage languages.
Inhaltsangabe
* 1: Joshua R. Brown and Joseph Salmons: A verticalization theory of language shift * 2: Mirva Johnson: Politics and cooperatives: Verticalization in rural Finnish-American communities of the Upper Midwest * 3: Joshua Bousquette: The Great Change in midwestern agriculture: Verticalization in Wisconsin German and Wisconsin West Frisian heritage communities * 4: David Natvig: The Great Change and the shift from Norwegian to English in Ulen, Minnesota * 5: Joshua R. Brown: Language shift and religious change in Central Pennsylvania * 6: Benjamin E. Frey: Internal verticalization and community maintenance: The story of North Carolina Cherokee * 7: Salikoko S. Mufwene: The verticalization model of language shift from a population-structure perspective: A commentary * 8: Anita Auer: The verticalization model of language shift from a historical sociolinguistic perspective: A commentary * 9: Joshua Bousquette, Joshua R. Brown, Benjamin E. Frey, Mirva Johnson, David Natvig, and Joseph Salmons: Reflecting on the commentaries
* 1: Joshua R. Brown and Joseph Salmons: A verticalization theory of language shift * 2: Mirva Johnson: Politics and cooperatives: Verticalization in rural Finnish-American communities of the Upper Midwest * 3: Joshua Bousquette: The Great Change in midwestern agriculture: Verticalization in Wisconsin German and Wisconsin West Frisian heritage communities * 4: David Natvig: The Great Change and the shift from Norwegian to English in Ulen, Minnesota * 5: Joshua R. Brown: Language shift and religious change in Central Pennsylvania * 6: Benjamin E. Frey: Internal verticalization and community maintenance: The story of North Carolina Cherokee * 7: Salikoko S. Mufwene: The verticalization model of language shift from a population-structure perspective: A commentary * 8: Anita Auer: The verticalization model of language shift from a historical sociolinguistic perspective: A commentary * 9: Joshua Bousquette, Joshua R. Brown, Benjamin E. Frey, Mirva Johnson, David Natvig, and Joseph Salmons: Reflecting on the commentaries
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