TY  - BOOK
AU  - Louden,Mark Laurence
TI  - Pennsylvania Dutch: the story of an American language 
T2  - Young Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studies
SN  - 9781421418292
AV  - PE3102.P45 L68 2016eb
U1  - 427/.9748 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Pennsylvania Dutch
KW  - Languages
KW  - History
KW  - Religion
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - German Americans
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Language
KW  - Languages in contact
KW  - Pennsylvania Dutch (Ethnie)
KW  - Langues
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - Américains d'origine allemande
KW  - Pennsylvanie
KW  - Langage
KW  - Langues en contact
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Pennsylvaniadeutsch
KW  - gnd
KW  - Berks County (Pa.)
KW  - Berks County
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; What Is Pennsylvania Dutch? -- Early History of Pennsylvania Dutch -- Pennsylvania Dutch, 1800-1860 -- Profiles in Pennsylvania Dutch Literature -- Pennsylvania Dutch in the Public Eye -- Pennsylvania Dutch and the Amish and Mennonites -- An American Story
N2  - "While most world languages spoken by minority populations are in serious danger of becoming extinct, Pennsylvania Dutch is thriving. In fact, the number of Pennsylvania Dutch speakers is growing exponentially, although it is spoken by less than one-tenth of one percent of the United States population and has remained for the most part an oral vernacular without official recognition or support. A true sociolinguistic wonder, Pennsylvania Dutch has been spoken continuously since the late eighteenth century, even though it has never been "refreshed" by later waves of immigration from abroad. In this probing study, Mark L. Louden, himself a fluent speaker of Pennsylvania Dutch, provides readers with a close look at the place of the language in the life and culture of two major subgroups of speakers: the "Fancy Dutch," whose ancestors were affiliated mainly with Lutheran and German Reformed churches, and conservative Anabaptist sectarians known as the "Plain people"--The Old Order Amish and Mennonites. Drawing on scholarly literature, three decades of fieldwork, and ample historical documents--most of which have never before been made accessible to English-speaking readers--this is the first book to offer a comprehensive look at this unlikely linguistic success story"--
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