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## Abstract This chapter demonstrates how Warren’s (1978) horizontal structures can be applied to cultural communities dispersed across relatively wide geographic distances. Using Keiser’s (2009; 2012) “strawberry vine” terminology, this chapter examines how Finnish-American communities in northern Wisconsin created and maintained social connections to other Finns via workers’ associations and cooperative networks. These networks acted as “gatekeepers,” allowing Finnish-speaking immigrants to buy and sell goods and attend social events in venues within a geographically dispersed but socially and economically more insular Finnish-American community. This chapter offers a case study showing that the degree of Finnish language preservation in two rural Wisconsin communities was influenced not only by the effects of urbanization, but by the strength of their ties to the Finnish-American socioeconomic network.

Author

Mirva Johnson

Publisher

Oxford University PressOxford

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192633583

Subjects

Linguistics, Sociology, Literary Fiction