Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Languages and Folklore of the Upper Midwest) - Hardcover

Remlinger, Kathryn A.

 
9780299312503: Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Languages and Folklore of the Upper Midwest)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 029931250X ISBN 13: 9780299312503
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Yooper Talk is a fresh and significant contribution to understanding regional language and culture in North America. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan—known as “the UP”—is historically, geographically, and culturally distinct. Struggles over land, labor, and language during the last 150 years have shaped the variety of English spoken by resident Yoopers, as well as how they are viewed by outsiders.

Drawing on sixteen years of fieldwork, including interviews with seventy-five lifelong residents of the UP, Kathryn Remlinger examines how the idea of a unique Yooper dialect emerged. Considering UP English in relation to other regional dialects and their speakers, she looks at local identity, literacy practices, media representations, language attitudes, notions of authenticity, economic factors, tourism, and contact with immigrant and Native American languages. The book also explores how a dialect becomes a recognizable and valuable commodity: Yooper talk (or “Yoopanese”) is emblazoned on t-shirts, flags, postcards, coffee mugs, and bumper stickers.

Yooper Talk explains linguistic concepts with entertaining examples for general readers and also contributes to interdisciplinary discussions of dialect and identity in sociolinguistics, anthropology, dialectology, and folklore.

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Kathryn Remlinger is a professor of linguistics in the Department of English at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan.

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Verlag
University of Wisconsin Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
029931250X
ISBN 13 
9780299312503
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Anzahl der Seiten
206
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