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Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest)

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Yooper Talk is a fresh and significant contribution to figuring out regional language and culture in North The usa. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan―referred to as “the UP”―is historically, geographically, and culturally distinct. Struggles over land, labor, and language all through the last 150 years have shaped the number of English spoken by resident Yoopers, in addition to how they’re viewed by outsiders.

Drawing on sixteen years of fieldwork, including interviews with seventy-five lifelong residents of the UP, Kathryn Remlinger examines how the idea of a unique Yooper dialect emerged. Taking into account UP English in terms of other regional dialects and their speakers, she looks at local identity, literacy practices, media representations, language attitudes, notions of authenticity, economic factors, tourism, and contact with immigrant and Native American languages. The book also explores how a dialect becomes a recognizable and valuable commodity: Yooper talk (or “Yoopanese”) is emblazoned on t-shirts, flags, postcards, coffee mugs, and bumper stickers.

Yooper Talk explains linguistic concepts with entertaining examples for general readers and likewise contributes to interdisciplinary discussions of dialect and identity in sociolinguistics, anthropology, dialectology, and folklore.

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