nam a22 c 4500 clu.6/722008261 nljbp 250625035006.4 cr ||||||||||| 241221s2012 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2011044637 9789027275035 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp PF5938.5.T4 437/.9764 23 CF/2AC bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Roesch, Karen A. author Language Maintenance and Language Death The decline of Texas Alsatian Karen A. Roesch Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 ©2012 1 online resource (xv, 253 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Culture and Language Use 1879-5838 6 Includes bibliographical references and index. Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. The sociohistorical context -- Chapter Three. The lexicon of Texas Alsatian -- Chapter Four. The phonology of Texas Alsatian -- Chapter Five. The morphosyntax of Texas Alsatian -- Chapter Six. Language attitudes -- Chapter Seven. Language maintenance and death 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. Provided by publisher. Anthropological Linguistics English linguistics Germanic linguistics Language policy Sociolinguistics and Dialectology Roesch, Karen A. author Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012 9789027202888 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/clu.6 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027275035