New PDF release: Wisconsin Talk: Linguistic Diversity in the Badger State

By Thomas Purnell,Eric Raimy,Joseph Salmons

ISBN-10: 0299293343

ISBN-13: 9780299293345

Wisconsin is without doubt one of the so much linguistically wealthy locations in North the USA. It has the best range of yank Indian languages east of the Mississippi, together with Ojibwe and Menominee from the Algonquian language relations, Ho-Chunk from the Siouan relatives, and Oneida from the Iroquoian relatives. French position names dot the state's map. German, Norwegian, and Polish—the languages of immigrants within the 19th and early 20th centuries—are nonetheless spoken by means of tens of hundreds of thousands of individuals, and the inflow of recent immigrants talking Spanish, Hmong, and Somali maintains to counterpoint the state's cultural panorama. those languages and others (Walloon, Cornish, Finnish, Czech, and extra) have formed the categories of English spoken round the country. inside of Wisconsin's borders are stumbled on 3 diversified significant dialects of yank English, and regardless of the affects of mass media and pop culture, they don't seem to be merging—they are dramatically diverging.

An attractive survey for either normal readers and language students, Wisconsin speak brings jointly views from linguistics, background, cultural reports, and geography to light up why language concerns in our daily lives. The authors spotlight such themes as:

• phrases unique to the state

• how fresh and prior immigrants have negotiated cultural and linguistic challenges

• the range of bilingual audio system that enriches our communities

• how maps can exhibit the tales of language

• the relation of Wisconsin's Indian languages to language loss worldwide.

Show description

Read or Download Wisconsin Talk: Linguistic Diversity in the Badger State (Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest) PDF

Best linguistics books

New PDF release: The Emergence of Distinctive Features (Oxford Studies in

This publication makes a primary contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the character of the human language school. certain beneficial properties in phonology distinguish one significant sound from one other. because the mid-twentieth century they've been visible as a suite characterizing all attainable phonological differences and as an essential component of common Grammar, the innate language school underlying successive types of Chomskyan generative conception.

New PDF release: The Strangeness of Tragedy

This e-book reads tragedy as a style during which the protagonist is estranged from the realm round him, and, displaced in time, house, and language, involves inhabit a milieu that's not shared through different characters. This alienation from others additionally includes a decomposition of the integrity of the person, that is frequently noticeable in tragedy's uncertainty concerning the protagonists' autonomy: do they act, or do the gods act via them?

New PDF release: Cross-linguistic Influences in Multilingual Language

This quantity depicts the phenomenon of cross-linguistic affects within the particular context of multilingual language acquisition. It comprises articles on a number of matters in terms of the syntactic and lexical improvement of international language newbies from assorted L1 backgrounds, in lots of circumstances regarding languages that are typologically far away from English, resembling Russian, Croatian, Greek and Portuguese.

New PDF release: Fremde Sprachen. Ihre Strukturen und Besonderheiten (German

Skript aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft / Sprachforschung (fachübergreifend), , Sprache: Deutsch, summary: In diesem Artikel werden Möglichkeiten der Sprachanalyse und der Sprachtypologisierung aufgezeigt. Anschließend werden Strukturen fremder Sprachen und ihre Besonderheiten aufgezeigt, u.

Additional resources for Wisconsin Talk: Linguistic Diversity in the Badger State (Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest)

Sample text

Download PDF sample