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On the Maintenance and Use of Heritage Finnish among Today’s North American Finnish Migrants: A Survey
(Transnational Finnish Mobilities, 2019)In this chapter, I discuss the maintenance of the Finnish language among today’s North American ethnic Finns, those who have migrated from Finland into North America relatively recently, and, most pronouncedly, after the ... -
On the Grammar and Rhetoric of language mixing in Piers Plowman
(Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 2002)In excerpt (1) below, the Dreamer of Langland’s Piers Plowman is expressing his dissatisfaction with friars; the passage is a typical example of what is often called “macaronic language” - a conventionalized style where ... -
Finnish Women in Gainesville, Florida
(Siirtolaisuus – Migration, 2010)In this article, we take a look at Gainesville, a northern Florida university town, as a sample of today’s (2010) Finnish-American immigration patterns. The Gainesville area has a history of Finnish immigration, but, as ... -
Language Mixing as a Persuasive Strategy in Oxford, MS Bodley
(Medieval Worlds, 2021)One of the salient features of Oxford, MS Bodley 649, a fifteenth-century sermon collection, is its frequent switching from Latin to English - and back to Latin again. Building on Wenzel’s (1994) groundbreaking work on ... -
Dividing the world: The dichotomous rhetoric of Ronald Reagan
(Multilingua, 1993)The language of politics often divides our world into two groups: those who share our own values, and those who supposedly oppose them. Ex-President Ronald Reagan was a master of the use of dichotomous language. His ...
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