Kathryn Remlinger, Professor of English & Linguistics at Grand Valley State University

Guest contributor Professor Katie Day Good of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio interviews Professor Kathryn Remlinger, author of Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, published by the University of Wisconsin Press (2017). Professor Remlinger — in addition to helpfully explaining what a “Yooper” is! — discusses her work with linguistic identity in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the methodology behind her research, the history of settlement in the region, the immigrant populations that shaped the region economically, culturally, and linguistically, and the varieties of English dialects that emerged in the region.

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