Icelandic Heritage in North America

• Autore: Arnbjörnsdóttir Birna
• Pubblicazione: Winnipeg : , : University of Manitoba Press, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 pages)
• Disciplina: 971
• Soggetto topico: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Scandinavian Languages (Other)
• Soggetto non controllato: Icelandic heritage; Icelandic immigrants in North America; Icelandic language; heritage language
• Altri autori: ThráinssonHöskuldur Úlfar Bragason
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Moving a Language between Continents: Icelandic Language Communities 1870-1914 -- Chapter 2. Icelanders and America: What is it to be Vestur-Íslendingur? -- Chapter 3. Acculturation on Their Own Terms: The Social Networks of Political Radicals among Icelandic Immigrants in Canada in the Early Twentieth Century -- Chapter 4. The Barnason Brothers in Nebraska: Two Pioneer Farmers -- Chapter 5. Ralph E. Halldorson and the Great War -- Chapter 6. Icelandic Immigrants, Modernity, and Winnipeg in Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran's "Hopes" -- Chapter 7. Another Emigrant Ship Crossing the Atlantic: The Poetics of Migration in the Poetry of Undína and Stephan G. Stephansson -- Chapter 8. The Young Icelander Grows Up: Nationalism and Ethnic Identity in Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason's Life and Work -- Chapter 9. Icelandic-Canadian Oral Lore: New Life in a New Land and How the Women's Tales May Shed Light on the Classification of the Edda Poems -- Chapter 10. Raven Tracks across the Prairies: Icelandic Immigration and Manuscript Culture in the Canadian West -- Chapter 11. Word Meanings in North American Icelandic: More North American or More Icelandic? -- Chapter 12. Understanding Complex Sentences in a Heritage Language -- Chapter 13. "And the Dog Is Sleeping Too": The Use of the Progressive in North American Icelandic -- Chapter 14. Language and Identity: The Case of North American Icelandic -- Chapter 15. The Heritage Language Project: Impact and Implications -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors.
• Sommario/riassunto: Icelandic Heritage in North America offers an in-depth examination of Icelandic immigrant identity, linguistic evolution, and legacy.
• Titolo autorizzato: Icelandic Heritage in North America
• ISBN: 9781772840230
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911046589803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II