“The English Effect” on Amish Language and Literacy Practices

Tabetha Adkins

doi:10.25148/clj.5.2.009411

Community Literacy Journal Apr 2011 Open Access

“The English Effect” on Amish Language and Literacy Practices

Tabetha Adkins Texas A&M University – Commerce

Abstract

Using Jack Goody and Ian Watt’s theory of literacy as a normalizing agent, I show how the presence of the English language and “English Only” values and policies have affected the Amish and their home language, Pennsylvania Dutch, and their religious language, “High” German. These changes are seen as detrimental to the Amish who, like linguistic scholars William Labov, John E. Joseph, and Joshua A. Fishman, equate language with identity.

Journal: Community Literacy Journal
Published: 2011-04-01
DOI: 10.25148/clj.5.2.009411
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