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Yooper Talk - Dialect as Identity in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Hardcover)
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Yooper Talk - Dialect as Identity in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Hardcover)
Series: Languages and Folklore of the Upper Midwest
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List price R633
Loot Price R573
Discovery Miles 5 730
You Save R60 (9%)
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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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