BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16845-14a1bfd546f57862ddfddbecf2d908b0@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260911T145115Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T103000 SUMMARY:CLS Anniversary Alumni Speaker Series - Josh Brown (University of Wiscon sin - Eau Claire) Multilingualism in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania DESCRIPTION:Multilingualism in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania \;\n\ nHistorical language contact and multilingualism contribute both to soci olinguistic identities and to language ideologies. For the early Pennsyl vania Dutch\, the distance from their European homeland and the adoption of American regional identities created and resulted in a shift in ling uistic hegemony. Knowledge of European German\, which held literary and educational prestige\, was largely receptive and\, in time\, a variety o f European German called Pennsylvania High German emerged in the publica tions and schools of Pennsylvania. Because the emphasis was only on its comprehension\, Pennsylvania High German was not held up to prescriptive control and is characterized by loanwords from English and Pennsylvania Dutch and structural features that diverge from standard German. Moreov er\, its sociolinguistic history is one of “dismantling” a European stan dard language. For Pennsylvanians\, the period of Pennsylvania High Germ an use represents both a tenacious yet precarious hold on their European roots and a bridge to their new sociocultural and linguistic identities in America.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cls-an niversary-alumni-speaker-series-josh-brown-university-of-wisconsin-eau-c laire-multilingualism-in-nineteenth-century-pennsylvania/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Multilingualism in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania 

Historical language contact and multilingualism c ontribute both to sociolinguistic identities and to language ideologies. For the early Pennsylvania Dutch, the distance from their European home land and the adoption of American regional identities created and result ed in a shift in linguistic hegemony. Knowledge of European German, whic h held literary and educational prestige, was largely receptive and, in time, a variety of European German called Pennsylvania High German emerg ed in the publications and schools of Pennsylvania. Because the emphasis was only on its comprehension, Pennsylvania High German was not held up to prescriptive control and is characterized by loanwords from English and Pennsylvania Dutch and structural features that diverge from standar d German. Moreover, its sociolinguistic history is one of “dismantling” a European standard language. For Pennsylvanians, the period of Pennsylv ania High German use represents both a tenacious yet precarious hold on their European roots and a bridge to their new sociocultural and linguis tic identities in America.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cls-anniversary-alumni-spea ker-series-josh-brown-university-of-wisconsin-eau-claire-multilingualism -in-nineteenth-century-pennsylvania/

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