Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan's Upper Peninsula POL042040 and isolation from the mainstream--characterized

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Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan's Upper Peninsula POL042040 and isolation from the mainstream--characterizedThe Upper Peninsula of Michigan known as "the U P" is historically, geographically, and culturally distinct. Struggles over land, labor, and language during the last 150 years have shaped the variety of English spoken by resident Yoopers, as well as how they are viewed by outsiders and themselves. Drawing on sixteen years of fieldwork, including interviews with seventy five lifelong residents of the UP, Kathryn Remlinger examines how the idea of a