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| Format | Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Webber, Philip E. |
| Title, Analytic | Betwixt and between: The tension of language contact in Iowa's Amana colonies |
| Author, Monographic | Salmons, Joseph C. |
| Title, Monographic | The German language in America, 1683-1991 |
| Place of Publication | Madison, Wisconsin |
| Publisher | Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, UW-Madison |
| Date of Publication | 1993 |
| Location in Work | 104-123 |
| Series Editor | Geitz, Henry |
| Series Title | Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies |
| Abstract | The Community of True Inspiration (die Gemeinde der wahren Inspiration) under Johann Rock and Eberhard Gruber founded in Germany in 1714, migrated to the United States in 1842 and first settled in Ebenezer, near Buffalo, New York and then in Iowa. Here the Inspirationists established, and gradually populated, the seven villages that today comprise the Amana Colonies. The Amanana Colonies have exhibited remarkable tenacity in preserving many aspects of their German heritage, including the German language. The author has been collecting interview material in the Colonies since 1981 and has focussed his research on an analysis of interview data, with an eye toward documenting evidence of changing patterns of language use in the Amana Colonies. A questionnaire was used (see appendix). In this paper, Webber has chosen to comment on several areas that appear to offer immediate prospects for sociolinguistic investigation, rather than to attempt to "touch all bases" in a passing and superficial manner |
| Call Number | MKI PF 5925 G47 1993 |
| MKI Terms | Language, German (US) -- Dialects/ Language, German (US) -- Social aspects/ Sociolinguistics/ Iowa/ Amana/Dialects |