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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Enninger, Werner//Wandt, Karl-Heinz |
| Title, Analytic | Social Roles and Language Choice in an Old Order Amish Community |
| Journal Title | Sociologia Internationalis |
| Date of Publication | 1979 |
| Volume ID | 17 |
| Issue ID | 1/2 |
| Location in Work | 47-70 |
| Abstract | Of all aspects of the overall aim, i.e. the description of the sign-based behavior of the members of one specific Old Order Amish (OOA) isolate, the present paper focuses on the functional distribution of the varieties (American English, Pennsylvania German, and Amish High German) of the verbal repertoire. The social unit under investigation was defined as the total of those persons in Kent County, Delaware, U.S.A., who in January 1978 lived in households with OOA household heads. This threefold criterion of time, region, and religious affiliation isolated a total of 1314 persons living in 164 households distributed over a rural area of about eight miles by eleven miles between Dover and the Maryland stateline. . . . Despite the sweeping criticism levelled at role theory from a Marxist angle, we hazard to assume that in the isolate under investigation role concepts provide the basis for a set of heuristic tools, by means of which the way in which the members of the isolate perceive their social world and organize their instrumental and sign-based interaction can be reconstructed. . . . In that grooming and garment-mediated roles are signaled before the opening of discourse, these nonverbal performatives . . . function as 'stage markers' signaling the rules concerning the choice of variety, the rules of address and personal referencing, discursive privileges and the use of 'discourse lubricants' that apply for the ensuing discourse. |
| Notes | Sonderdruck |
| Call Number | MKI P2004-51 |
| MKI Terms | Amish/ Linguistics/ Social influence/ Pennsylvania-German dialect/ Sociolinguistics |