Language Maintenance and Language Death: The Decline of Texas Alsatian (Culture and Language Use),Used

Language Maintenance and Language Death: The Decline of Texas Alsatian (Culture and Language Use),Used

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This book provides the first extensive description of Texas Alsatian, a criticallyendangered Texas German dialect, as spoken in Medina County in the 21st century. The dialect was brought to Texas in the 1840s by colonists recruited by French entrepreneur Henri Castro and has been preserved with minimal change for six generations. Texas Alsatian has maintained lexical, phonological, and morphosyntactic features which differentiate it from the prevalent standardnear varieties of Texas German. This study both describes its grammatical features and discusses extralinguistic factors contributing to the dialects preservation or accelerating its decline, e.g., social, historical, political, and economic factors, and speaker attitudes and ideologies linked to cultural identity. The works multifaceted approach makes its relevant to a broad range of scholars such as dialectologists, historical linguists, sociolinguists, ethnographers, and anthropologists interested in

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