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Perceptual Dialectology in Central Wisconsin

Sarah Braun
Perceptual Dialectology in Central Wisconsin Book PDF

Author : Sarah Braun
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783662634462

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Perceptual Dialectology in Central Wisconsin by Sarah Braun Pdf

This book investigates the complex interplay of language discourse and variation in Marathon County, Wisconsin, USA. The combination of different research methods such as ethnographic observations, sociolinguistic interviews, and methods used in perceptual dialectology allows the meaning of language variation in Marathon County to be studied on different levels, i.e. how speakers position themselves within their speech community overtly through discourse and, more subtly, through their linguistic practices. Results show that Wisconsin English is becoming increasingly enregistered, a finding which none of the individual approaches to studying language discourse and variation in Marathon County reveals on their own. It is shown that a “Nortwoods persona” is beginning to evolve which links place, identity, and language use.

The American Midwest

Andrew R. L. Cayton,Richard Sisson,Chris Zacher
The American Midwest Book PDF

Author : Andrew R. L. Cayton,Richard Sisson,Chris Zacher
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1918 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253003492

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The American Midwest by Andrew R. L. Cayton,Richard Sisson,Chris Zacher Pdf

This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.

Yooper Talk

Kathryn A. Remlinger
Yooper Talk Book PDF

Author : Kathryn A. Remlinger
Publisher : Languages and Folklore of Uppe
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0299312542

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Yooper Talk by Kathryn A. Remlinger Pdf

Remlinger's book engagingly examines the history of the "Yooper" dialect of American English in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, focusing on how and why such regional dialects and identities emerge.

Limpy's Adult Lexicon

Joseph Heywood
Limpy s Adult Lexicon Book PDF

Author : Joseph Heywood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493072996

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Limpy's Adult Lexicon by Joseph Heywood Pdf

From the author of the Woods Cop and Lute Bapcat mystery series comes a new book for the fans. When Heywood was writing his first Woods Cop novel, into his mind crawled a character called Limpy Allerdyce, who is a master poacher-predator-violator in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—that is, the turf where Heywood’s novels take place. The first description of Limpy was in Ice Hunter. Much like Shakespeare’s outrageous character Falstaff, Allerdyce exhibits little doubt in himself, and though he seems to exhibit a dark view of life and living, there are glimpses of lights at other levels sometimes flashing like distant small beacons. Unlike Falstaff, who virtually everyone is happy to see and be around (until they aren’t), no one is ever glad to see Limpy because his reputation scares the hell out of everybody he comes in contact with (and most who’ve only heard about him)—everyone, that is, except Grady Service, conservation officer and hero of Heywood’s novels. A minor character at first, Limpy’s role in the novels has grown with time. For Yoopers who are far and away (and some who are not so far and away), one thing is true for all of them: they all want to return to the UP as soon as they can. Till that day, they have the novels of Joe Heywood and Limpy’s Adult Lexicon to comfort them.

A Place to Remember

Robert Archibald
A Place to Remember Book PDF

Author : Robert Archibald
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0761989439

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A Place to Remember by Robert Archibald Pdf

In this call for better public history, Robert Archibald explores the intersections of history, memory and community to illustrate the role of history in contemporary life and how we are active participants in the past.

A Yooper's Tale

Robert Hugh Williams
A Yooper s Tale Book PDF

Author : Robert Hugh Williams
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781662460807

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A Yooper's Tale by Robert Hugh Williams Pdf

A Yooper’s Tale: Death by Wendigo is a fun, action-packed adventure set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It is yarned with real history, real places, Native American lore knit into fictional story that will keep you turning the pages to keep up with the ride. Enjoy the brief history of the Great Lakes state, the tale of good vs. evil, and life in the Upper Peninsula college town where things may not be all that they seem. If you like a tall tale with action and monsters that grab you by the throat, you will love this one.

One Yooper’S Journey

Jack Perante
One Yooper S Journey Book PDF

Author : Jack Perante
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781543412970

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One Yooper’S Journey by Jack Perante Pdf

One Yoopers Journey: An Unauthorized Autobiography is a fictionalized autobiography. It needs to be fictionalized just as a resume needs to be embellished. It may not be as believable, but the fictionalized parts are intended to be much more entertaining. The events described in the book really happened. The specifics, such as the minute details and the dialogue, may not be historically accurate. The term unauthorized autobiography, though somewhat oxymoronic, has a purpose. Real Yoopers may take exception to the use of this word in the title, since the author has lived most of his life outside of the Upper Peninsula. His journey parallels at times and intersects at other times with the journey of his favorite relativehis Uncle Hal Nowell. Uncle Hal teams up with him from time to time with a mix of shared adventures and misadventures. The author was positively influenced by the town and the many good people of Escanaba.

North Country

Jon K. Lauck,Gleaves Whitney
North Country Book PDF

Author : Jon K. Lauck,Gleaves Whitney
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806192475

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North Country by Jon K. Lauck,Gleaves Whitney Pdf

Travel north from the upper Midwest’s metropolises, and before long you’re “Up North”—a region that’s hard to define but unmistakable to any resident or tourist. Crops give way to forests, mines (or their remains) mark the landscape, and lakes multiply, becoming ever clearer until you reach the vastness of the Great Lakes. How to characterize this region, as distinct from the agrarian Midwest, is the question North Country seeks to answer, as a congenial group of scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals explores the distinctive landscape, culture, and history that define the northern margins of the American Midwest. From the glacial past to the present day, these essays range across the histories of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, colonial imperial rivalries and immigration, and conflicts between the economic imperatives of resource extraction and the stewardship of nature. The book also considers literary treatments of the area—and arguably makes its own contributions to that literature, as some of the authors search for the North Country through personal essays, while others highlight individuals who are identified with the area, like Sigurd Olson, John Barlow Martin, and Russell Kirk. From the fur trade to tourism, fisheries to supper clubs, Finnish settlers to Native treaty rights, the nature of the North Country emerges here in all its variety and particularity: as clearly distinct from the greater Midwest as it is part of the American heartland.

The Sociolinguistics of Place and Belonging

Leonie Cornips,Vincent A. de Rooij
The Sociolinguistics of Place and Belonging Book PDF

Author : Leonie Cornips,Vincent A. de Rooij
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027264596

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The Sociolinguistics of Place and Belonging by Leonie Cornips,Vincent A. de Rooij Pdf

This volume shows the relevance of the concepts of ‘place’ and ‘belonging’ for understanding the dynamics of identification through language. It also opens up a new terrain for sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological study, namely the margins. Rural, as well as urbanized areas that are seen as marginal or peripheral to places that are overtly recognized as mixed and hybridized have received relatively little sociolinguistic attention. Yet, people living in these supposedly less ‘spectacular’ margins are not immune to the effects of globalization and rapid technological change. They too constantly form new ensembles from linguistic and cultural resources which they invest with novel, instable, often ambiguous meanings. This volume focusses on the purportedly unspectacular in order to achieve a full understanding of the relation between language, place and belonging. The contributors to this volume, therefore, focus on language practices analyzing them as dialectically related to political-economic processes and language ideologies.

The emergence of American English as a discursive variety

Ingrid Paulsen
The emergence of American English as a discursive variety Book PDF

Author : Ingrid Paulsen
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103386

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The emergence of American English as a discursive variety by Ingrid Paulsen Pdf

Do speakers’ identity constructions influence the emergence of new varieties of a language? This question is at the heart of a debate about how the process of the emergence of postcolonial varieties of English can best be modeled. This volume contributes to the debate by linking it to models and theories proposed by anthropological linguists, sociolinguists and discourse linguists who view identity as a social and cultural phenomenon that is produced through linguistic and other social practices. Language is seen as essential for identity constructions because speakers use linguistic forms that index social ‘personae’ as well as specific social practices and values to convey an image of self to other speakers. Based on the theory of enregisterment that models the cultural and discursive process of the creation of indexical links between linguistic forms and social values, the argument is made that any model of the emergence of new varieties needs to differentiate carefully between a structural level and a discursive level. What emerges on the discursive level as a result of processes of enregisterment is a ‘discursive variety’. The volume illustrates how the emergence of a discursive variety can be systematically studied in a historical context by focusing on the enregisterment of American English as it can be observed in nineteenth-century U.S. newspapers. Using a discourse-linguistic methodological framework and two large databases containing close to 78 million newspaper articles, the study reveals a complex pattern of indexical links between the phonological forms /h/-dropping and -insertion, yod-dropping, a lengthened and backened bath vowel, non-rhoticity, a realization of prevocalic /r/ as a labiodental approximant as well as the lexical items baggage and pants on the one hand and social values centering around nationality, authenticity and non-specificity on the other hand. Qualitative analyses uncover the social personae associated with the linguistic forms (e.g. the American cowboy, the African American mammy and the ‘Anglo-maniac’ American dude), while quantitative analyses trace the development over time and show that the enregisterment processes were widespread and not restricted to a particular region.

Paul Bunyan in Michigan: Yooper Logging, Lore & Legends

Jon C. Stott
Paul Bunyan in Michigan Yooper Logging Lore Legends Book PDF

Author : Jon C. Stott
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626196766

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Paul Bunyan in Michigan: Yooper Logging, Lore & Legends by Jon C. Stott Pdf

The loggers who settled Michigan's Upper Peninsula whiled away winter evenings with tales of extreme weather, strange geography, legendary beasts and improbable feats. One mythic figure strode confidently from one story to the next, his legend growing with each retelling. Soon, Paul Bunyan began to appear in newspapers, magazines, books and even a Walt Disney cartoon. In this first collection since 1946 set exclusively in the UP, author Jon C. Stott recaptures the oral tradition that cast Bunyan's shadow across the national imagination. Relive the winter of the blue snow and cross paths with familiar companions like Babe and Johnny Inskslinger, as well as odd creatures like the hodag and the agropelter.

Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging

Kristine Horner,Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain
Multilingualism Im mobilities and Spaces of Belonging Book PDF

Author : Kristine Horner,Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788925068

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Multilingualism, (Im)mobilities and Spaces of Belonging by Kristine Horner,Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain Pdf

Certain forms of mobility and multilingualism tend to be portrayed as problematic in the public sphere, while others are considered to be unremarkable. Divided into three thematic sections, this book explores the contestation of spaces and the notion of borders, examines the ways in which heritage and authenticity are linked or challenged, and interrogates the intersections between mobility and hierarchies and the ways that language can be linked to notions of belonging and aspirations for mobility. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Australasia and Europe, it explores how language functions as both site of struggle and as a means of overcoming struggle. This volume will be of particular interest to scholars taking ethnographic and critical sociolinguistic approaches to the study of language and belonging in the context of globalisation.

Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook

Amy Shaw
Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook Book PDF

Author : Amy Shaw
Publisher : Languages and Folklore of Uppe
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299328702

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Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook by Amy Shaw Pdf

Ole Hendricks was an immigrant both representative and exceptional--a true artistic talent who nevertheless lived a familiar immigrant experience. By day, he was a farmer. But at night, his fiddle lit up dance halls, bringing together all manner of neighbors in rural Minnesota. Each tune in his repertoire of waltzes, reels, polkas, quadrilles, and more were copied neatly into his commonplace book. Such tunebooks, popular during the nineteenth century, rarely survive and are often overlooked by folk scholars in favor of commercially produced recordings, published sheet music, or oral tradition. Based on extensive historical and genealogical research, Amy Shaw presents a grounded picture of a musician, his family, and his community in the Upper Midwest, revealing much about music and dance in the area. This notable contribution to regional music and folklore includes more than one hundred of Ole's dance tunes, transcribed into modern musical notation for the first time. Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook will be valuable to readers and scholars interested in ethnomusicology and the Norwegian American immigrant experience.

So Ole Says to Lena

James P. Leary
So Ole Says to Lena Book PDF

Author : James P. Leary
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0299173747

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So Ole Says to Lena by James P. Leary Pdf

This is an introduction to the most important recent court decisions affecting women in the United States. Abortion, sexual harrassment, pornography, surrogate motherhood, rape, custody rights - the legal and social questions surrounding these issues are brought to life in this casebook.

Dr. Howard on the Keweenaw

P. J. Howard M.D.
Dr Howard on the Keweenaw Book PDF

Author : P. J. Howard M.D.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781796081800

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Dr. Howard on the Keweenaw by P. J. Howard M.D. Pdf

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is one of America’s hidden treasures. Overlooked and ignored as a place to visit compared, say, to Vermont or coastal Maine. It is decidedly not Yellowstone Park, Disney World, or New Orleans. The UP and the yoopers, as they are called, like it just that way. They enjoy their own character, culture, and history. The land of Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake in the world, is their world along with the fingerlike Keweenaw Peninsula that dares to thrust deep northward into the heart of this beautiful, and sometimes dangerous, magnificent glacial gift. This is the setting for which Longfellow wrote his magical poem The Song of Hiawatha. Come along and enjoy the adventures of a surgeon working and exploring the land around the lake, the Keweenaw, the Copper Country history, the Ojibwa and Chippewa Indians, and more. How did the UP become an unexpected, greatly unappreciated golden gift to Michigan and pay Michigan back a thousand fold for begrudgingly accepting the UP. Come along with me and learn all about the yoopers, the culture, the history, Father Marquette, and Michigan’s connection to the Mississippi River and more. See how the UP transformed itself from a copper-mining industrial area back to a most beautiful and wonderful part of America. I’ll even tell you where to get good meals and where not to get good meals. As a bonus I’ll throw in a lot of useful medical advice with no co-pay! Come along now. Let’s go!