The Life and Death of Texas German
The Life and Death of Texas German
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德克萨斯德国人的生与死
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2009
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H. Boas
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本书介绍了德州德语作为二十一世纪口语的第一个主要研究，重点是它的形成和它所经历的语言变化。这种新大陆方言是150多年前在得克萨斯州中部的德语社区形成的，是以前地位很高的方言因社会政治原因而衰落的一个不同寻常的例子。德州德语是方言研究的一个重要案例，现在处于极度濒危状态，到2050年可能会灭绝。通过将目前的数据与自19世纪40年代以来带到德克萨斯州的德国方言数据进行比较和对比，这本书深入分析了说德语的社区和说英语的德克萨斯人之间的相互互动，说德语的人在这个新社区中的长期适应，以及德克萨斯州边境上的语言杂交。该书还分析了德州德语在过去一个世纪中的一些语音、句法和形态变化，并研究了德州德语社区从成立到今天的社会语言学方面，提供了对新方言形成、失语症、语言转移、语言维持和语言死亡背后的动态的洞察。最后，这本书调查了语言的迅速消失，这对语言学以外的领域具有全球社会和文化影响。汉斯·C·博阿斯是德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的语言学副教授。
This volume presents the first major study of Texas German as spoken in the twenty-first century, focusing on its formation and the linguistic changes it has undergone. This New World dialect, formed more than 150 years ago in German communities in central Texas, is an unusual example of a formerly high-status dialect that declined for socio-political reasons. An important case study for dialect research, Texas German is now critically endangered and will probably be extinct by 2050. By comparing and contrasting present-day data with data from the German dialects brought to Texas since the 1840s, the volume offers an in-depth analysis of mutual interaction between the German-speaking community and English-speaking Texans, long-term accommodation of Texas German speakers in this new community, and language hybridization on the Texas frontier. The volume also analyzes a number of phonological, syntactic, and morphological changes in Texas German over the past century and examines sociolinguistic aspects of the Texas German community from its foundation to today, providing insight into the dynamics underlying new-dialect formation, diglossia, language shift, language maintenance, and language death. Finally, the volume investigates the rapid disappearance of languages, which has global social and cultural implications for areas beyond linguistics. Hans C. Boas is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin.