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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Low German"”.
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The Low German Dialect of Concordia, Missouri
A resurgence of interest recently in various German dialects present in many regions of the United States has led to the gathering of data in many small towns throughout the Midwest whose dialects and dialect speakers will have died out within the next decade. With this realization, research …
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Culture change in a low-German rural community in Champaign County, Illinois
Open Restriction set for Item 114871 on 2020-06-22T16:54:05Z with date null by lac7@illinois.edu.
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Promoting and monitoring Low German: education policies and ideologies of language in the northern German Bundesländer
… from the Charter’s active protection is Low German—the heritage language of northern Germany and parts of the northeastern areas of the Netherlands. This thesis analyzes the Charter’s success in fostering this language in the field of education and how the policies meant to accomplish …
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The boundary between "us" and "them": readers and the non-English word in the fiction of Canadian Mennonite writers
… orthography, and interlanguage in relation to (Low) German, and suggests the importance of these features to a discussion of the texts. Chapters four through six examine Rudy Wiebe's The Blue Mountains of China (1970), Anne Konrad's The Blue Jar (1985), and Armin Wiebe's The Salvation of Yasch …
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En Busca Del Macho Y Otras Ficciones: Representaciones Contemporáneas De Masculinidades Latinoamericanas.
… in Viaje a La Habana, by Reinaldo Arenas, allows for a vindication of subordinate masculinities through the rewriting of the nation's political and cultural history. I argue that the novel proposes what I call a "transvestite epic," in which the characters participate in a transvestite …
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Speech in space and time: Contact, change and diffusion in medieval Norway
… which affected all of the Continental North Germanic languages (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian) but not the Insular North Germanic Languages were the result of contact with Middle Low German through the Hanseatic League. This suggests that those simplificatory changes arose in the centres of …