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Beschreibung
Stripped of their ancestral languages generations ago, the Lumbee Indians of Robeson Count, North Carolina, carved out a unique dialect of English to maintain their linguistic identity. The story of Lumbee English is one of the most remarkable narratives of linguistic adaptability and cultural perseverance ever documented in the history of American English dialects.
Stripped of their ancestral languages generations ago, the Lumbee Indians of Robeson Count, North Carolina, carved out a unique dialect of English to maintain their linguistic identity. The story of Lumbee English is one of the most remarkable narratives of linguistic adaptability and cultural perseverance ever documented in the history of American English dialects.
Über den Autor
Walt Wolfram is William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of English at North Carolina State University. His books include Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue and Talkin' Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina.

Clare Dannenberg is an Associate Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She is the author of Sociolinguistic Constructs of Ethnic Identity: The Syntactic Delineation of a Native American English Variety.

Stanley Knick is the former Director of the Museum of the Southeast American Indian at UNC Pembroke. His publications include Along the Trail: A Reader About Native Americans and The Lumbee in Context: Toward an Understanding.

Linda E. Oxendine (Lumbee) is Professor Emeritus at UNC Pembroke. She has published articles on Lumbee culture and history and is co-author of Hail to UNCP!: A 125-Year History of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781469661407
ISBN-10: 1469661403
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wolfram, Walt
Dannenberg, Clare
Knick, Stanley
Hersteller: NC State University Language and Life Project
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 235 x 191 x 7 mm
Von/Mit: Walt Wolfram (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2021
Gewicht: 0,305 kg
Artikel-ID: 119813569