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Date: 08-Mar-2012 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Language Maintenance and Language Death: Roesch E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Language Maintenance and Language Death
Subtitle: The decline of Texas Alsatian
Series Title: Culture and Language Use 6
Published: 2012
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Author: Karen A. Roesch
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027275035 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027275035 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027202888 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 99.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027202888 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027202888 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 104.94
Abstract:
This book provides the first extensive description of Texas Alsatian, a critically-endangered Texas German dialect, as spoken in Medina County in the 21st century. The dialect was brought to Texas in the 1840s by colonists recruited by French entrepreneur Henri Castro and has been preserved with minimal change for six generations. Texas Alsatian has maintained lexical, phonological, and morphosyntactic features which differentiate it from the prevalent standard-near varieties of Texas German.
This study both describes its grammatical features and discusses extra- linguistic factors contributing to the dialect's preservation or accelerating its decline, e.g., social, historical, political, and economic factors, and speaker attitudes and ideologies linked to cultural identity. The work's multi-faceted approach makes its relevant to a broad range of scholars such as dialectologists, historical linguists, sociolinguists, ethnographers, and anthropologists interested in language variation and change, language and identity, immigrant dialects, and language maintenance and death.
Linguistic Field(s):
Historical Linguistics
Language Documentation
Language Variation
Sociolinguistics
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