Identity and ethnicity in the rural South : a sociolinguistic view through past and present Be / Kirk Hazen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hazen, Kirk.

Series:

Publication of the American Dialect Society ; no. 83.

Publication of the American Dialect Society ; no. 83

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Social aspects--North Carolina--Warren County.

English language.

English language--Dialects--North Carolina--Warren County.

Group identity--North Carolina--Warren County.

Group identity.

Americanisms--North Carolina--Warren County.

Americanisms.

Ethnicity--North Carolina--Warren County.

Ethnicity.

English language--Dialects.

English language--Social aspects.

Warren County (N.C.)--Social conditions.

Warren County (N.C.).

English language--Tense.

Be (The English word).

North Carolina--Warren County.

Physical Description:

xii, 178 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Published for the Society by Duke University Press, [2000]

Summary:

Identity and Ethnicity in the Rural South investigates the interaction of cultural and ethnic identity as realized in language variation. Through the quantitative and qualitative analysis of sociolinguistic data on the past tense of the verb be and on its absence, this work explains the synchronic and diachronic trends of language variation and several important social factors, including ethnicity, sex, and cultural identity. This volume also informs the debates about the origins and contemporary synchronic relations of African American Vernacular English to other ethnic varieties.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-178).

ISBN:

0822364719

OCLC:

43287192