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Yooper talk : dialect as identity in Michigan's Upper Peninsula / Kathryn A. Remlinger.

By: Series: Languages and Folklore of the Upper MidwestPublisher: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]Description: xxi, 183 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780299312503 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 427/.97749 23
LOC classification:
  • PE3101.M5 R46 2017
Contents:
Dialect and identity: a language ideology approach -- Land, labor, and language: the roots of Upper Peninsula English -- Sounding like a Yooper: the idea of a regional dialect -- What it means to be a Yooper: authentic locals and ideal speakers -- Yooperisms in tourism: selling the idea of a dialect -- Recognize and recycle: regional dialects in the media.

Dialect and identity: a language ideology approach -- Land, labor, and language: the roots of Upper Peninsula English -- Sounding like a Yooper: the idea of a regional dialect -- What it means to be a Yooper: authentic locals and ideal speakers -- Yooperisms in tourism: selling the idea of a dialect -- Recognize and recycle: regional dialects in the media.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-173) and index.

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