Publications

Publication details [#35147]

Webber, Philip E. 1988. Pella Dutch: The portrait of a language and its use in one of Iowa's ethnic communicties. Iowa State University Press. x + 163 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | immigrant | language and culture | language use | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Dutch, Pella

Annotation

This book presents a case-study of Dutch, spoken in the bilingual speech community of Pella (south-central Iowa), by the descendents of 19th-century Dutch immigrants.

Reviewed by

Gilbert, Glenn G. 1991. Review of $Pella Dutch: The portrait of a language and its use in one of Iowa's ethnic communicties.