Yooper Talk - Dialect As Identity in Michigan''s Upper Peninsula

Informationen zum Autor Kathryn Remlinger is a professor of English at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. Klappentext The Upper Peninsula of Michigan - known as ""the UP"" - is historically, geographically, and culturally distinct. Drawing on sixteen years of fieldwork, including interviews with seventy-five lifelong residents of the UP, Kathryn Remlinger examines how the idea of a unique Yooper dialect emerged. Zusammenfassung The Upper Peninsula of Michigan - known as ""the UP"" - is historically, geographically, and culturally distinct. Drawing on sixteen years of fieldwork, including interviews with seventy-five lifelong residents of the UP, Kathryn Remlinger examines how the idea of a unique Yooper dialect emerged.

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn A Remlinger, Kathryn A. Remlinger
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9780299312503
• ISBN: 978-0-299-31250-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Languages and Folklore of Uppe; Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest; Languages and Folklore of Uppe; Languages and Folklore of the Upper Midwest
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous