This article first presents an overview of the social and demographic phenomena specific to the language shift situation in Sanpete County, Utah, focusing on the biggest non-English-speaking group, the Danes. This overview includes the assimilation norms that were present in the community (including from the dominant religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), social and geographical isolation, and related issues of identity and language maintenance. Using interdisciplinary methods under the rubric of sociocultural linguistic research, our analysis presents an overview of the state of Danish in today’s Sanpete County, then further divides the Danish linguistic elements into two main categories: overt and covert. The analysis of these items makes use of the notion of postvernacular language use, as well as highlighting the female and domestic-related networks of transmission. This study of the Danish-language situation in Sanpete County offers a glimpse of the final stages of complete language shift, revealing information about a rare and under-examined linguistic community within the American context.

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丹麦人的遗骸：犹他州桑皮特县语言转变的最后阶段

本文首先概述了犹他州桑皮特县语言转变情况所特有的社会和人口现象，重点关注最大的非英语群体丹麦人。本概述包括社区中存在的同化规范（包括来自主流宗教、耶稣基督后期圣徒教会）、社会和地理隔离以及身份和语言维护的相关问题。我们的分析在社会文化语言研究的标题下使用跨学科的方法，概述了当今圣彼得县的丹麦语状况，然后将丹麦语语言元素进一步分为两大类：公开的和隐蔽的。对这些项目的分析利用了后白话语言使用的概念，以及强调女性和家庭相关的传播网络。这项对 Sanpete 县丹麦语情况的研究提供了完整语言转换的最后阶段的一瞥，揭示了有关美国语境中罕见且未充分研究的语言社区的信息。