Letters home: German-American Civil War soldiers’ letters 1864–1865
| Autor: | Samantha Litty |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language History 05 social sciences Language and Linguistics language.human_language German 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Generative linguistics Spanish Civil War language Historical linguistics 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0305 other medical science Sociolinguistics Classics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. 5 |
| ISSN: | 2199-2908 2199-2894 |
| Popis: | Phillipp Schneider, German-American Civil War soldier and resident of Wisconsin since the age of 9, wrote 45 letters from March 1864 to August 1865, totaling ca. 22,500 words. I analyze these letters from a sociolinguistic perspective, considering both the unique mix of German and English usage and the socio-historical implications surrounding the letters. These are supplemented for comparison with two letters written by German-American Heritage German speaker and soldier, Jacob Goelzer, who wrote to Schneider’s sister twice in 1864. I describe the importance of when and under what circumstances these letters were written, and I also delineate instances from the letters of how the dominant community language, English, has influenced the German used and compare the use of German and English. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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