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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Webber, Philip E. |
| Title, Monographic | Pella Dutch: The Portrait of a Language and Its Use in One of Iowa's Ethnic Communities |
| Place of Publication | Ames, Iowa |
| Publisher | Iowa State University Press |
| Date of Publication | 1988 |
| Extent of Work | ix, 163 |
| ISBN | 0-8138-0079-X |
| Abstract | In 1847, the visionary Reverend Hendrik Pieter Scholte founded a colony of Dutch immigrants at Pella in the heart of Iowa, arguably the most pervasively--though seldom the most visibly--Dutch state in the Union. . . . Pella Dutch explores the cultural links between present-day Pella and Scholte's nineteenth-century immigrant settlement. Through personal contacts and interviews, author Philip E. Webber has used the methods of language research to examine the evolving social milieu in which Dutch is spoken in Pella and surrounding communities. Professor Webber's sociolinguistic investigation of contemporary Pella enables him to trace the vestiges of Dutch heritage left on the English spoken by local residents; to explain attitudes toward language and ethnicity that have emerged over the course of the present century; and to document the vocabulary, linguistic forms, humor, and conversational patterns that characterize Pella Dutch. |
| Notes | Bibliography: p. 153-158. Donated by Glenn Gilbert, 2007 |
| Call Number | MEM/MKI PF 891 .W43 1988 |
| MKI Terms | Dutch language -- Dialects -- Iowa -- Pella/ English language -- Foreign elements -- Dutch/ Dutch Americans -- Iowa -- Pella -- Social life and customs |