The remains of the Danes: The final stages of language shift in Sanpete County, Utah
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The remains of the Danes: The final stages of language shift in Sanpete County, Utah. / Kühl, Karoline; Peterson, Elizabeth.
In: Journal of Language Contact, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2018, p. 208-232.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The remains of the Danes: The final stages of language shift in Sanpete County, Utah
AU - Kühl, Karoline
AU - Peterson, Elizabeth
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This article first presents an overview of the social and demographic phenomenaspecific to the language shift situation in Sanpete County, Utah, focusing on the biggest non-English-speaking group, the Danes. This overview includes the assimilation norms that were present in the community (including from the dominant religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), social and geographical isolation, and related issues of identity and language maintenance. Using interdisciplinary methods under the rubric of sociocultural linguistic research, our analysis presents an overview of the state of Danish in today’s Sanpete County, then further divides the Danish linguistic elements into two main categories: overt and covert. The analysis of these items makes use of the notion of postvernacular language use, as well as highlighting the female and domestic-related networks of transmission. This study of the Danish languagesituation in Sanpete County offers a glimpse of the final stages of completelanguage shift, revealing information about a rare and under-examined linguistic community within the American context.
AB - This article first presents an overview of the social and demographic phenomenaspecific to the language shift situation in Sanpete County, Utah, focusing on the biggest non-English-speaking group, the Danes. This overview includes the assimilation norms that were present in the community (including from the dominant religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), social and geographical isolation, and related issues of identity and language maintenance. Using interdisciplinary methods under the rubric of sociocultural linguistic research, our analysis presents an overview of the state of Danish in today’s Sanpete County, then further divides the Danish linguistic elements into two main categories: overt and covert. The analysis of these items makes use of the notion of postvernacular language use, as well as highlighting the female and domestic-related networks of transmission. This study of the Danish languagesituation in Sanpete County offers a glimpse of the final stages of completelanguage shift, revealing information about a rare and under-examined linguistic community within the American context.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - American Danish, Mormons, Danish language, language shift, heritage language
KW - Heritage Danish
KW - language contact
KW - migration
KW - Mormon Church
KW - European mass migration
M3 - Journal article
VL - 11
SP - 208
EP - 232
JO - Journal of Language Contact
JF - Journal of Language Contact
SN - 1877-4091
IS - 2
ER -
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