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Tangier Island : place, people, and talk / David L. Shores.
- Title
- Tangier Island : place, people, and talk / David L. Shores.
- Author
- Shores, David L.
- Publication
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | F232.T15 S56 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 293 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Tangier is a mere dot of land in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay situated just below the Maryland-Virginia line. This study is an account of the Islanders' beginnings in the late 1700s, a portrait of them as an isolated community under siege, and a description of the way they talk."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-293) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. I. Place. 1. Colonial and Chesapeake Forebears: Who Were They, Where Did They Come From, and Why Did They Come? 2. Tangier Beginnings and Development -- pt. II. People. 3. Life and Family. 4. Work. 5. Worship. 6. Community Concerns: Order and Government, Play, School, and Health -- pt. III. Talk. 7. Overview. 8. Pronunciation. 9. "Over the Left Talk" or "Talking Backwards" 10. Words, Names, and Expressions. 11. Grammatical Features and Correctness. 12. Tangier Talk, Relationships, and Future.
- ISBN
- 0874137179 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^00021430^
- OCLC
- 43370517
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library