Language Maintenance and Language Death

Name: Language Maintenance and Language Death | The decline of Texas Alsatian
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The decline of Texas Alsatian

Karen A. Roesch(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 28. Februar 2012

XV, 253 Seiten

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Language Maintenance and Language Death
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication page
Table of contents
List of tables
List of figures
List of illustrations
Chapter One. Introduction
1.1 Overview
1.2 Methodology and data collection
1.3 What is Texas Alsatian?
1.3.1 The land of origin
1.3.2 The Upper Rhenish donor dialect
1.4 The decline of Texas German dialects
1.4.1 Linguistic homogeneity versus heterogeneity
1.4.2 Standard French and German Uberdachung
1.4.3 Elsasser and Dietsche: Two cultural communities
1.5 Adopted home of Texas Alsatian: Medina County 2000
1.6 Participant profile
1.6.1 Speaker fluency
1.6.2 Language acquisition and fluency
1.7 Contact with the European homeland and language use today
1.8 Book overview
Chapter Two. The sociohistorical context
2.1 The ecology of language
2.2 Beginnings: The historical context
2.2.1 German immigration to Texas
2.2.2 Immigration to Medina County
2.2.3 Henri Castro, Empresario
2.2.4 The founding of Castroville
2.3 Socio-cultural contexts: Religion and education
2.4 Political and economic contexts
2.4.1 Insulation
2.4.2 "Reawakening"
2.4.3 Verticalization vs. horizontalization
2.5 Sociolinguistic contexts
2.5.1 Language use in early Castroville
2.5.2 Diglossia and language shift in early Castroville
2.5.3 Real and apparent-time analysis of 2009 participants
2.6 "Group vitality" and language maintenance and shift
2.7 Summary
Chapter Three. The lexicon of Texas Alsatian
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Distinguishing Texas Alsatian lexically
3.3 Lexical borrowing
3.4 Lexical innovation and convergence
3.5 Code-switching
3.6 Summary
Chapter Four. The phonology of Texas Alsatian
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Phonological features of European Alsatian
4.2.1 Regional German dialects in contact with Alsatian
4.2.2 Distinguishing consonantal features of Alsatian
4.2.3 Distinguishing vocalic features of Alsatian
4.2.4 Alsatian regional varieties: Upper and lower Rhenish
4.3 Texas Alsatian
4.3.1 Preservation of Alsatian vocalic features
4.4.2 Preservation of consonantal features
4.3.3 Phonological transference
4.4 Summary
Chapter Five. The morphosyntax of Texas Alsatian
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The standard German noun: Gender, case, and number
5.3 The Upper Rhenish noun: Gender, case, and number
5.4 The Texas Alsatian noun: Gender, case, and number
5.4.1 Gender
5.4.2 Case marking
5.4.3 Number and plural formation
5.4.4 The diminutive
5.4.5 Pronouns
5.5 The Upper Rhenish verb
5.6 The Texas Alsatian verb
5.6.1 The present perfect tense
5.6.2 Temporal auxiliaries
5.6.3 Modal auxiliaries
5.6.4 Word order in verb complements
5.7 Summary and analysis
Chapter Six. Language attitudes
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Attitudes, feelings, beliefs
6.3 The Castroville Alsatians
6.4 Language use and attitudes toward "the other"
6.4.1 The "other"
6.4.2 The Texas German community: not "the other"?
6.5 The decline of Texas Alsatian
6.6 Preservation
6.7 Summary
Chapter Seven. Language maintenance and death
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Structural maintenance of the Upper Rhenish donor dialect(s)
7.3 Structural change and loss in Texas Alsatian
7.4 Texas Alsatian versus other Texas German varieties
7.5 Group identity markers for the Castroville Alsatian community
7.6 Attitudes, dispositions, and ideologies
7.7 The decline of Texas Alsatian
7.8 Implications for various research areas
7.8.1 Implications for structural research on language maintenance
7.8.2 Implications for sociolinguistic research on language maintenance
7.8.3 Implications for research on linguistic change related to language death
7.8.4 Implications for sociolinguistic research on language death
7.9 Concluding remarks
Appendices
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
References
Index

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