Crossing The Divide
Subtitle: Language Transition Among Canadian Mennonite Brethren, 1940–1970
By: by Gerald C. Ediger
Publisher: Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies, Winnipeg
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 249
Copyright date: 2001
Table of contents: pagenum: 1
label: 1. Introduction: The Contours of the Divide; pagenum: 11
label: 2. Prologue to Confrontation; pagenum: 12
label: The Kanadier Come to the Brink of Change; pagenum: 16
label: The Arrival of the Russlaender; pagenum: 25
label: First Attempts to "Regulate the Situation"; pagenum: 39
label: 3. Confrontation Engaged; pagenum: 39
label: Passions are Defined; pagenum: 42
label: The Committee for the German Language; pagenum: 47
label: Conflict and Threatening Alienation; pagenum: 52
label: Bilingualism Re-defined and Alienation Confirmed; pagenum: 65
label: 4. Hope, Disillusionment, and Surrender; pagenum: 65
label: The Watershed Year, 1952; pagenum: 72
label: Still Attempting to "Regulate the Situation"; pagenum: 79
label: Paying the Price of Transition; pagenum: 91
label: 5. Winkler Case Study: To the Brink of Schism; pagenum: 92
label: Initial Accommodation and Accelerating Change; pagenum: 95
label: Gathering Resistance; pagenum: 102
label: Denial, Suppression, and Manipulation; pagenum: 109
label: To the Brink of Schism; pagenum: 121
label: 6. North End-Elmwood Case Study: Resisting the Tide of Change; pagenum: 122
label: The Language Issue Takes Shape; pagenum: 128
label: Incremental Bilingualism; pagenum: 138
label: Frustration, Alienation, and Malaise; pagenum: 145
label: Staving Off Linguistic Segregation; pagenum: 155
label: 7. South End-Portage Avenue Case Study: From Denial to Suppression; pagenum: 156
label: Tensions Defined; pagenum: 166
label: Achieving the Minimum of Bilingualism; pagenum: 172
label: Bilingualism Reluctantly Expanded; pagenum: 178
label: Schism; pagenum: 185
label: Suppression Fails Again; pagenum: 193
label: 8. Conclusion; pagenum: 194
label: The Scope and Sequence of Mennonite Brethren Language Transition; pagenum: 201
label: Factors Contributing to Language Transition; pagenum: 209
label: Sources and Bibliography; pagenum: 209
label: Primary Sources; pagenum: 211
label: Selected General Bibliography; pagenum: 215
label: Abbreviations and Endnotes; pagenum: 237
label: Glossary