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</div>Dear Colleagues,<div><div>Thea Strand will be talking about her new book, <i>A Winning Dialect,</i> tomorrow -- September 27th.<br><br>She
has asked us to read chapter 3. Please read as much as you can, but do feel
free to join us even if you haven't managed to read everything.<br><br>The reading can be found here:</div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3ChvakIsL8VFDvIZkjYjDIqXfzK6KnE/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3ChvakIsL8VFDvIZkjYjDIqXfzK6KnE/view?usp=sharing<br></a></div><div><br><br></div><div>The meeting will be 12-1 pm east coast time and can be <br>reached by clicking on this Zoom link:<br><br><a href="https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698" target="_blank"> https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698</a><br><br>Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,<br><br>Ilana</div></div><div><br></div><div>Press blurb: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Poppins,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Why
did a rural dialect from the heart of Norwegian farm country win a
national dialect popularity contest? What were the effects of this win,
and what has happened to the winning dialect since?</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Poppins,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Poppins,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">A Winning Dialect</em> tells
a story of linguistic and cultural transformation in the rural district
of Valdres, Norway. It shows how lifelong residents have adapted to
changing social, economic, and political circumstances – particularly
the shift from family farming to tourism development – and how they have
used local linguistic and cultural resources to craft a viable future
for themselves and the places their ancestors have called home for
centuries. Once stigmatized as poor and uneducated, the distinctive
dialect of Valdres now holds a special place as a valuable part of
Norwegian national heritage, as well as a marker of local belonging.
Based on two decades of research and fieldwork, <em style="box-sizing:border-box">A Winning Dialect</em> considers
how a traditional dialect is transformed – linguistically and
culturally – as it is put to new uses in the contemporary world.</p></div></div></div>