Faculty
Title: Director of Undergraduate Studies / Professor Office: Bate 2207 Phone: 252.328.6411 E-Mail: copel@ecu.edu
Lida Cope's research interests include Texas Czech; immigrant/heritage community language documentation, revitalization and maintenance; language and ethnic identity; child bilingualism; language contact and first language attrition; and cross-cultural communication. She has published on child first language attrition and on the issues of language, culture and identity in Czech Moravian communities in Texas. Her articles have appeared in Language and Education, Pragmatics, Kosmas, Slavic and Eastern European Journal, Southern Journal of Linguistics, Southwest Journal of Linguistics, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, and in conference proceedings. She has edited a volume on cross-disciplinary teamwork in endangered language context (Routledge, 2012) An external research associate at the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Cope directs the Texas Czech Legacy Project aimed at developing an open-access digital archive for the unique Texas Czech dialect.
M.A. Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic M.A. University of Arizona at Tucson Ph.D. University of Arizona at Tucson
Texas Czech Immigrant/Heritage Community Languages Language and Ethnic Identity Child bilingualism Language contact First Language Attrition Cross-cultural communication
Texas Czech Legacy Project English undergraduate programs Linguistics / TESOL Program TALGS (TESOL/Applied Linguistics Graduate Students) Conference
Books
Cope, L., & Hopkins, M. (Eds.) (2015). Centennial of Czech studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Fort Worth, TX: Wild Horse Media/Eakin Press.
Cope, L. (Ed.) (2012). Applied linguists needed: Cross-disciplinary teamwork in endangered language contexts. Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
Editorships of professional journals
Cope, L., & Eckert, E. (Guest Eds.) (2016). Special issue of the International Journal of Sociology of Language, 2016(238): Multilingualism and minorities in the Czech sociolinguistic space.
Cope, L., & Penfield, S. D. (Guest Eds.) (2011). Special issue of Language and Education, 25(4): "Applied linguist needed": Cross-disciplinary networking for revitalization and education in endangered language contexts.
Journal articles
Cope, L. (2016). Texas Czech Legacy Project: Documenting the past and present for the future. The International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2016(238), 105-125.
Cope, L., & Eckert, E. (2016). Multilingualism and minorities in the Czech sociolinguistic space: introduction. The International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2016(238), 1-14.
Cope, L. (2014). Texas Czech Legacy Project: Documenting the dialect and ethnocultural heritage of ethnic Czechs and Moravians in Texas. Czech Language News, 40, 5-8.
Cope, L., & Penfield, S. D. (2012). Why applied linguists are needed to work with and for endangered language communities. In L. Cope, L. (Ed.), Applied linguists needed: Cross-disciplinary teamwork in endangered language contexts . Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
Cope, L., & Penfield, S. D. (2011). Introduction. Language and Education 25(4), 267-271. (Reprinted in L. Cope (Ed.) Applied linguists needed: Cross-disciplinary teamwork in endangered language contexts (pp. 1-6). Routledge/Taylor&Francis.)
Cope, L. (2011). From ethnocultural pride to promoting the Texas Czech vernacular: Current maintenance efforts and unexplored possibilities. Language and Education 25(4), 361-383. (Reprinted in L. Cope (Ed.), Applied linguists needed (pp. 95-117). Routledge /Taylor & Francis.)
Cope, L. (2009). Switching codes, affirming identities: Writing in Texas Czech. Discourse and Interaction, 2(2), 5-21.
Cope, L. (2006). Discontinued intergenerational transmission of Czech in Texas: "Hindsight is better than foresight." Southern Journal of Linguistics, 30(2), 1-49.
Dutkova-Cope, L. (2003). Texas Czech ethnic identity: "So how Czech are you, really?" Slavic and East European Journal, 47(4), 648-76.
Dutkova-Cope, L. (2001).The language of Czech Moravians in Texas: "Do you know what P árknu káru u hauza means?" Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 20(2), 51-84.
Dutkova-Cope, L. (2001). Texas Czech: The language of Texans who say they speak "a different type of Czech". Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 20(1), 29-69.
Dutkova-Cope, L. (2001).The future of Czech in Texas: "How can you learn something if it's not offered to you?" Kosmas: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal, 14 (2), 80-104.
Dutkova-Cope, L. (2000). Texas Czech folk music and ethnic identity. Pragmatics, 10(1), 7-37.
Dutkova, L. (1999). Texas Czech of Texas Czechs: An ethnolinguistic perspective on language use in a dying language community. Brown Slavic Contributions, Volume XI: Modern Czech Studies, 2-10.
Saville-Troike, M., Pan, J., & Dutkova, L. (1995). Differential effects of L2 on children's L1 development /attrition. Southwest Journal of Linguistics 14(1-2), 125-49. (1995 copyright, 1998 publication).
Krobotov á , M., & Dutková, L. (1990). Computer programs coded for IQ 151 focused on practice of attribute usages. Č eský Jazyk a Literatura [The Czech Language and Literature]. Philologica 9 .
Krobotov á , M., & Dutková, L. (1989) . Computer programs coded for IQ 151 - Training in syntax of pupils at the age of adolescence. Č eský Jazyk a Literatura [The Czech Language and Literature]. Philologica 8.
Chapters
Cope, L. (2008). Written codeswitching and ethnolinguistic identities of a Czech Texan. In C. Cravens, M. Fidler, & S. S. Kresin (Eds.), Between texts, languages, and cultures: A Festschrift for Michael Henry Heim (pp. 1-14). Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers.
Dutkova-Cope, L. (2005). Texas Czech folk music and ethnic identity. In M. Havr ánková (Ed.), Nadn árodní contexty národní literatury ('Transnational contexts of the national literature'; pp. 169-92). České Budějovice, Czech Republic : South Bohemian University.
Dutkova, L. (1999). Texas Czech: An ethnolinguistic study. In Machann, C. (Ed.), Czech Americans in transition (pp. 76-96). Austin: Eakin Press.
Digital humanities project (on-going)
Texas Czech Legacy Project: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/txczechproject/home
The goal of this Project is to create a central place documenting the language, culture, and history of ethnic Czech Moravians in Texas. The Project's main initiative is the building of an open-access digital Texas Czech Dialect Archive (TCDA) of audio-recordings gathered from ethnic Czech Moravians in Texas since the 1970s through the 2000s.
The Project's mission is to create a community resource for Texas Czechs as well as a scholarly resource for anyone fascinated by this population's language, culture, and history. As a legacy archive, the TCDA will be a central repository for irreplaceable oral histories, spoken in the Texas Czech dialect, reflecting the change in the historically Czech Moravian communities of Texas from the early 1850s to the present.