Lida Cope: Czech in Texas and the Texas Czech Legacy Project

by | Jun 13, 2025 | Presentation and Discussion

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Date(s) - June 13, 2025
5:00 pm

Location
C.S.P.S. Hall

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“If I can’t speak it, at least I can dance it!”

In this presentation, we will take a brief tour of the Czech diaspora and land in Texas to examine what makes Texas Czech a unique diasporic variety of Czech and why the Texas Czech Legacy Project strives to document it for future generations.

Lida Cope

Lida Cope is a professor of applied linguistics at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. Her research examines the language, culture, and identity in historically Czech Moravian communities in Texas.

She directs the Texas Czech Legacy Project, housed at the University of Texas at Austin, whose main objective is to build an open-access corpus of Texas Czech speech.