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Preface to the Paperback Edition vii Preface xxvii Part One THE PEOPLE 1 Pella and Its Speakers 5 Vestiges of the Bilingual Heritage 6 Sociolinguistic Investigation in Pella: Selection of Sources 13 Questionnaire Respondents as Representatives of the Speaker Pool 17 Language Background 21 General Patterns of Language Use 24 Awareness of and Attitudes toward Language Use 31 Part Two THE CULTURE 37 Evolving Attitudes toward Language and Ethnicity 41 Eendracht Maakt Macht, or: Divide and Be Conquered 42 Who Are “We”and Who Are “They”? 48 The World Comes Knocking at the Door 51 “Surely Thou Art Also One of Them; for Thy Speech Betrayeth Thee”—Matthew 26:73 53 Zenith and Nadir 60 CONTENTS Part Three THE LANGUAGE 69 Pella Dutch and Its Speakers Today 73 Who Perpetuates the Language in Its Final Stages? 73 The Tone of a Typical Conversation 77 Whatever Else It Is, It’s Dutch! 84 Vestiges of Dialect 88 English Has the Final Word 92 Part Four CONCLUSION 99 Appendix A: Questionnaire 105 Appendix B: A Report on Ethnic Heritage and Language Education in Pella, Iowa 115 Notes 137 Selected Bibliography 153 Index 159 ...