Language Variety In The New South

Author : Cynthia Bernstein,Thomas E. Nunnally,Robin Sabino
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780817357443

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Language Variety in the South Revisited by Cynthia Bernstein,Thomas E. Nunnally,Robin Sabino Pdf

Top linguists from diverse fields address language varieties in the South. Language Variety in the South Revisited is a comprehensive collection of new research on southern United States English by foremost scholars of regional language variation. Like its predecessor, Language Variety in the South: Perspectives in Black and White (The University of Alabama Press, 1986), this book includes current research into African American vernacular English, but it greatly expands the scope of investigation and offers an extensive assessment of the field. The volume encompasses studies of contact involving African and European languages; analysis of discourse, pragmatic, lexical, phonological, and syntactic features; and evaluations of methods of collecting and examining data. The 38 essays not only offer a wealth of information about southern language varieties but also serve as models for regional linguistic investigation.

Author : Jeffrey Reaser,Eric Wilbanks,Karissa Wojcik,Walt Wolfram
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781469638812

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Language Variety in the New South by Jeffrey Reaser,Eric Wilbanks,Karissa Wojcik,Walt Wolfram Pdf

Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess the use and meaning of language in the South, a region rich in dialects and variants, this comprehensive edited collection reflects the cutting-edge research presented at the fourth decennial meeting of Language Variety in the South in 2014. Focusing on the ongoing changes and surprising continuities associated with the contemporary South, the contributors use innovative methodologies to pave new pathways for understanding the social dynamics that shape the language in the South today. Along with the editors, contributors to the volume include Agnes Bolonyai, Katie Carmichael, Phillip M. Carter, Becky Childs, Danica Cullinan, Nathalie Dajko, Catherine Evans Davies, Robin Dodsworth, Hartwell S. Francis, Kirk Hazen, Anne H. Charity Hudley, Neal Hutcheson, Alex Hyler, Mary Kohn, Christian Koops, William A. Kretzschmar Jr., Sonja L. Lanehart, Andrew Lynch, Ayesha M. Malik, Christine Mallinson, Jim Michnowicz, Caroline Myrick, Michael D. Picone, Dennis R. Preston, Paul E. Reed, Joel Schneier, James Shepherd, Erik R. Thomas, Sonya Trawick, and Tracey L. Weldon.

Author : Michael D. Picone,Catherine Evans Davies
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780817318154

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New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South by Michael D. Picone,Catherine Evans Davies Pdf

An outgrowth of the Language Variety in the South III symposium, New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches comprises forty-five original essays on a range of topics regarding the languages and dialects of the American South. Book jacket.

Author : Erin Callahan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351659772

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Emerging Hispanicized English in the Nuevo New South by Erin Callahan Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary language shift and identity in a language community in the mid-Atlantic South to offer a unique window into ethnic dialect formation and sociolinguistic processes underpinning dialect acquisition. Drawing on data collected from over 100 interviews of members North Carolina Hispanicized English speakers in Durham, North Carolina, the book employs a quantitative approach and uses statistical software in analyzing the data collected to focus on the sociolinguistic variable of past tense unmarking to explore sociolinguistic processes at work in English language learner variation. The focus on a specific variable allows for the opportunity to explore specific processes in more detail, including the ways in which speakers accommodate regional and ethnic varieties of their peers and the internal and environmental factors guiding dialect acquisition. Illuminating new facets to the processes of language learning, language contact, and ethnolect emergence, this volume is key reading for students and researchers in second language acquisition and variationist sociolinguistics.

Author : Michael Montgomery,Guy Bailey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015011872036

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Language Variety in the South by Michael Montgomery,Guy Bailey Pdf

Author : Wanda Little Fenimore
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781666923520

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Nikki Haley's Lessons from the New South by Wanda Little Fenimore Pdf

In Nikki Haley's Lessons from the New South, Wanda Little Fenimore traces the resurrection of the phrase “New South” with South Carolina’s former governor, Nikki Haley. Through analyzing speeches, Fenimore demonstrates how politicians use historical terms in new ways that obscure their roots but remain oppressive in the twenty-first century. This book reveals how Nikki Haley manufactured her “New South” as progressive, and forward-thinking, yet the term functions as a form of inferential racism, ultimately, reproducing traditional conservatism rooted in white supremacy. Scholars of rhetoric, communication, political science, and women’s studies will find this book of particular interest.

Author : Nathalie Dajko,Shana Walton
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496823908

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Language in Louisiana by Nathalie Dajko,Shana Walton Pdf

Contributions by Lisa Abney, Patricia Anderson, Albert Camp, Katie Carmichael, Christina Schoux Casey, Nathalie Dajko, Jeffery U. Darensbourg, Dorian Dorado, Connie Eble, Daniel W. Hieber, David Kaufman, Geoffrey Kimball, Thomas A. Klingler, Bertney Langley, Linda Langley, Shane Lief, Tamara Lindner, Judith M. Maxwell, Rafael Orozco, Allison Truitt, Shana Walton, and Robin White Louisiana is often presented as a bastion of French culture and language in an otherwise English environment. The continued presence of French in south Louisiana and the struggle against the language's demise have given the state an aura of exoticism and at the same time have strained serious focus on that language. Historically, however, the state has always boasted a multicultural, polyglot population. From the scores of indigenous languages used at the time of European contact to the importation of African and European languages during the colonial period to the modern invasion of English and the arrival of new immigrant populations, Louisiana has had and continues to enjoy a rich linguistic palate. Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture brings together for the first time work by scholars and community activists, all experts on the cutting edge of research. In sixteen chapters, the authors present the state of languages and of linguistic research on topics such as indigenous language documentation and revival; variation in, attitudes toward, and educational opportunities in Louisiana’s French varieties; current research on rural and urban dialects of English, both in south Louisiana and in the long-neglected northern parishes; and the struggles more recent immigrants face to use their heritage languages and deal with language-based regulations in public venues. This volume will be of value to both scholars and general readers interested in a comprehensive view of Louisiana’s linguistic landscape.

Author : Mary Kohn,Walt Wolfram,Charlie Farrington,Jennifer Renn,Janneke Van Hofwegen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108835947

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African American Language by Mary Kohn,Walt Wolfram,Charlie Farrington,Jennifer Renn,Janneke Van Hofwegen Pdf

A pioneering 20-year longitudinal study of 67 African American children that illuminates how and why language changes in childhood.

Author : Tracey Weldon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521895316

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Middle-Class African American English by Tracey Weldon Pdf

From its historical development to its current context, this is the first full-length overview of middle-class African American English.

Author : Margaret Clelland Bender
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0820325864

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Linguistic Diversity in the South by Margaret Clelland Bender Pdf

This volume brings together work by linguists and linguistic anthropologists not only on southern varieties of English, but also on other languages spoken in the region. The contributors, who often draw from their own involvement in language maintenance or linguistic heritage movements, engage several of the fields’ most pressing issues as they relate to the southern speech communities: tension between linguistic scholarship and linguistic activism; discourse genres; language contact; language ideology; and the relationship between language shift, language maintenance, and cultural reproduction. Acknowledging the role of immigration and settlement in shaping southern linguistic and cultural diversity, the volume covers a range of Native American, African American, and Euro-American speech communities. One essay explores the implementation of “dialect awareness programs” and the ethics of the relationship between researchers and North Carolina’s Lumbee and Ocracoke communities. Another essay focuses on a single Appalachian community to explore the interplay between linguistic variables commonly associated with Appalachian speech and others commonly associated with African American speech. Other essay topics include Creek language preservation efforts by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the history of language contact and linguistic diversity in the Carolinas, and the changing relationship between English and Mvskoke in Oklahoma. Also covered are the stereotypes, varied realities, and language ideologies associated with Appalachian speech communities; the mobilization of dialect by Cajun English speakers for creating humor, expressing solidarity, and setting boundaries; and the creative use of academic and religious discursive models in the construction of Melungeon and Appalachian Scotch-Irish discourses and identities.

Author : Anne H. Charity Hudley,Christine Mallinson,Mary Bucholtz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197755310

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Inclusion in Linguistics by Anne H. Charity Hudley,Christine Mallinson,Mary Bucholtz Pdf

Inclusion in Linguistics, the companion volume to Decolonizing Linguistics, aims to reinvent linguistics as a space of belonging across race, gender, class, disability, geographic region, and more. Taken together, the two volumes are the first comprehensive, action-oriented, book-length discussions of how to advance social justice in all aspects of the discipline.

Author : Michael B. Montgomery,Ellen Johnson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469616629

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Michael B. Montgomery,Ellen Johnson Pdf

The fifth volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores language and dialect in the South, including English and its numerous regional variants, Native American languages, and other non-English languages spoken over time by the region's immigrant communities. Among the more than sixty entries are eleven on indigenous languages and major essays on French, Spanish, and German. Each of these provides both historical and contemporary perspectives, identifying the language's location, number of speakers, vitality, and sample distinctive features. The book acknowledges the role of immigration in spreading features of Southern English to other regions and countries and in bringing linguistic influences from Europe and Africa to Southern English. The fascinating patchwork of English dialects is also fully presented, from African American English, Gullah, and Cajun English to the English spoken in Appalachia, the Ozarks, the Outer Banks, the Chesapeake Bay Islands, Charleston, and elsewhere. Topical entries discuss ongoing changes in the pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar of English in the increasingly mobile South, as well as naming patterns, storytelling, preaching styles, and politeness, all of which deal with ways language is woven into southern culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483294766

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Dialect and Language Variation by Anonim Pdf

This anthology emphasizes dialects of American English and language variation in America. The editors present original essays by today's leading investigators, including articles by some of Europe's best dialectologists, obtained expressly for this work. Important topics featured in Dialect and Language Variation include:**Dialect theories: linguistic geography, structural and generative dialectology, and language variation.**The nature of social dialects and language variation, with attention to women's speech.**Overview of regional dialects and area studies.**The nature and study of the relationship between ethnicity and dialects, including Black, Italian, Irish, Chicano, and Jewish ethnic groups.**The application of dialect studies to education.**Of special interest to dialectologists, sociolinguists, and English language educators and specialists, this work provides original insight into**a general background and history of dialect theory**an overview of regional geography and area studies**the principles of social dialects and language variation from several perspectives**an exploration of the relationship between ethnicity and dialects o explanations of the relationship between historical and language change**a section on how dialects and language variation can contribute to effective language instruction.

Author : Walt Wolfram,Natalie Schilling
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118391457

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American English by Walt Wolfram,Natalie Schilling Pdf

The new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field of American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences. Now accompanied by a companion website with an extensive array of sound files, video clips, and other online materials to enhance and illustrate discussions in the text Features brand new chapters that cover the very latest topics, such as Levels of Dialect, Regional Varieties of English, Gender and Language Variation, The Application of Dialect Study, and Dialect Awareness: Extending Application, as well as new exercises with online answers Updated to contain dialect samples from a wider array of US regions Written for students taking courses in dialect studies, variationist sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, and requires no pre-knowledge of linguistics Includes a glossary and extensive appendix of the pronunciation, grammatical, and lexical features of American English dialects

Author : Christine Mallinson,Becky Childs,Gerard Van Herk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136486005

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Data Collection in Sociolinguistics by Christine Mallinson,Becky Childs,Gerard Van Herk Pdf

This edited volume provides up-to-date, succinct, relevant, and informative discussion about methods of data collection in sociolinguistic research. It covers the main areas of research design, conducting research, and sharing data findings with longer chapters and shorter vignettes written by a range of top sociolinguists, both veteran and emerging scholars. Here is the one-stop, go-to guide for the numerous quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods that are used in sociolinguistic research, ensuring that Data Collection in Sociolinguistics will be not only useful in the classroom but also as a reference tool for active researchers. For more information, visit sociolinguisticdatacollection.com.