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Sociolinguistic Developments in the Norwegian-American Midwest: Norwegian's Post-Shift Presence /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sociolinguistic Developments in the Norwegian-American Midwest: Norwegian's Post-Shift Presence // Laura A Moquin.
Author:	Moquin, Laura A.,
Description:	1 electronic resource (228 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-07A.
Subject:	Sociolinguistics. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31770597
ISBN:	9798302176752

Sociolinguistic Developments in the Norwegian-American Midwest: Norwegian's Post-Shift Presence /
Moquin, Laura A.,

Sociolinguistic Developments in the Norwegian-American Midwest: Norwegian's Post-Shift Presence /Laura A Moquin. - 1 electronic resource (228 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-07, Section: A.

How immigrant languages have helped to shape varieties of American English and how they play a role in regional American identities continue to be relevant issues in linguistics today - especially in heritage language linguistics and studies of regional American dialects. Much research in heritage language communities focuses on speakers of the heritage language, but this work focuses on the speech and experiences of contemporary English monolinguals of Norwegian descent. I employ sociophonetic methods to analyze speech data from contemporary English monolinguals, as well as from historical and contemporary Norwegian-English bilinguals, and I use a variety of sociolinguistic interview techniques to uncover how English monolinguals continue to interact with Norwegian as a heritage language even after the point of shift. With these methods combined, and the introduction of new analytical concepts, this work shows the trajectory of specific post-shift features and demonstrates their interactions with notions of self, heritage, community, and place.In this work, I explore how two different examples of post-shift linguistic phenomena connect to heritage, local, and regional identities in an area of western Wisconsin with a history of Norwegian immigrant settlement and bilingualism. One example I consider is final stop aspiration (FSAsp), an example of phonetic transfer from Norwegian in western Wisconsin English that has previously gone unnoticed. I also examine continued symbolic connections to, and uses of, the Norwegian language across North America with the help of a widely distributed sociolinguistic survey, and I present a more focused case-study of these symbolic relationships to language in one post-shift heritage Norwegian community - Westby, Wisconsin. In a post-shift heritage language community, most members are non-speakers and relationships to the heritage language are primarily symbolic.In addition to feature description and analysis, I test the two post-shift features (i.e., FSAsp and Norwegian as a symbol) for sociolinguistic variability along three dimensions of connectivity where rootedness (Reed 2016, 2018), which captures a speaker's level of connectivity to the concept of place, is one dimension. I introduce two further dimensions of connectivity which I use as sociolinguistic variables that complement rootedness: individual connectivity to heritage, and connectivity between the concepts of heritage and place. For connectivity between heritage and place, I use a newly developed metric called heritage-place dependency inspired by Reed's rootedness metric.

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