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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Van Ness, Silke |
| Title, Analytic | Ohio Amish Women in the Vanguard of a Language Change: Pennsylvania German in Ohio |
| Journal Title | American Speech |
| Date of Publication | Spring 1995 |
| Volume ID | 70 |
| Issue ID | 1 |
| Location in Work | 69-80 |
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| Abstract | "Over the last 15 years, inquiry into the place of the individual within social networks has contributed to our understanding of how linguistic variables spread through a community. Essentially, a social network contributes two important linguistic functions: maintenance of features on the one hand, and rapid diffusion of incoming changes on the other. If we combine this concept of social network with Kroch's suggestion that 'social groups tend to mark themselves off symbolically,' we get a setting that is most germane to the younger Ohio Amish population. . . . However, PG children and adolescents studied in Ohio have no overt, external mechanism to signal their own uniqueness. At some point, the younger Amish women evidently started to use language to define their own identity in terms of 'modernity.'" |
| Notes | Includes bibliographical notes and references. |
| Call Number | Digital file (PDF) |
| MKI Terms | Pennsylvania German/ Women/ Linguistics/ German Americans -- Ohio/ Amish/ Language maintenance |