Dutchified English in an Ohio Beachy Amish-Mennonite Community
This article compares the English spoken by Beachy Amish-Mennonites just outside the Holmes County, OH, plain community with the English of non-plain neighbors. Although there is no previous linguistic research about the Beachys in this region, previous research on the dialects of English spoken by Amish communities suggests that differences from regional standards are influenced by deliberate border maintenance, primacy of language in expressing ethnic identity, and interference from Pennsylvania German, known to speakers as “Dutchified English.” However, little research has examined the Engl... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-18 (2019) |
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University of Akron
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Schlagwörter: | beachy amish-mennonite / holmes county (ohio) / pennsylvania dutch / pennsylvania german / triglossia / language contact / Christian Denominations / BX1-9999 |
Sprache: | Deutsch Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26625790 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doaj.org/article/0ef032b1d30646c5927af46afb449e7b |