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. Ed(S): Purnell, Thomas; Raimy, Eric; Salmons, Joseph - Wisconsin Talk: Linguistic Diversity in the Badger State (Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest) - 9780299293345 - V9780299293345
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Wisconsin Talk: Linguistic Diversity in the Badger State (Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest)

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Description for Wisconsin Talk: Linguistic Diversity in the Badger State (Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest) paperback. Wisconsin is one of the most linguistically rich places in North America. An engaging survey for both general readers and language scholars, Wisconsin Talk brings together perspectives from linguistics, history, cultural studies, and geography to illuminate why language matters in our everyday lives. Editor(s): Purnell, Thomas; Raimy, Eric; Salmons, Joseph. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: CFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Wisconsin is one of the most linguistically rich places in North America. It has the greatest diversity of American Indian languages east of the Mississippi, including Ojibwe and Menominee from the Algonquian language family, Ho-Chunk from the Siouan family, and Oneida from the Iroquoian family. French place names dot the state's map. German, Norwegian, and Polish - the languages of immigrants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - are still spoken by tens of thousands of people, and the influx of new immigrants speaking Spanish, Hmong, and Somali continues to enrich the state's cultural landscape. These languages and others (Walloon, Cornish, Finnish, Czech, and more) have shaped the kinds of English spoken around the state. Within Wisconsin's borders are found three different major dialects of American English, and despite the influences of mass media and popular culture, they are not merging - they are dramatically diverging.

An engaging survey for both general readers and language scholars, Wisconsin Talk brings together perspectives from linguistics, history, cultural studies, and geography to illuminate why language matters in our everyday lives. The authors highlight such topics as:
  • words distinctive to the state
  • how recent and earlier immigrants have negotiated cultural and linguistic challenges
  • the diversity of bilingual speakers that enrich our communities
  • how maps can convey the stories of language
  • the relation of Wisconsin's Indian languages to language loss worldwide.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299293345
SKU
V9780299293345
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Ref
99-1

About . Ed(S): Purnell, Thomas; Raimy, Eric; Salmons, Joseph
Thomas Purnell is associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his research examines the interface between phonetics and phonology with a focus on regional pronunciation. Eric Raimy is associate professor of English language and linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is coeditor of Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonology and Handbook of the Syllable. Joseph Salmons is the Lester W. J. ""Smoky"" Seifert Professor of Germanic Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author of A History of German: What the Past Reveals about Today's Language and executive editor of Diachronica: International Journal for Historical Linguistics.

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