Language variety in the South revisited / edited by Cynthia Bernstein, Thomas Nunnally, Robin Sabino.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sabino, Robin.

Nunnally, Thomas.

Bernstein, Cynthia Goldin, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Americanisms--Southern States.

Americanisms.

Black English--Southern States.

Black English.

Languages in contact--Southern States.

Languages in contact.

English language--Dialects--Southern States.

English language.

African Americans--Southern States--Languages.

African Americans.

English language--Social aspects--Southern States.

English language--Southern States--Foreign elements.

English language--Variation--Southern States.

English language--Southern States.

Southern States--Languages.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 641 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1997.

Summary:

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; analyses 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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Perspectives on Language Variety in the South

1. Language Variety in the South: A Retrospective and Assessment / Michael Montgomery

2. Southern American English: A Prospective / Guy Bailey

Part One. Language Contact with Emphasis on the African Diaspora

3. Earlier Black English Revisited / Edgar W Schneider

4. An Early Representation of African-American English / Marianne Cooley

5. Challenges and Problems of Recorded Interviews / Jeutonne P. Brewer

6. The Variable Persistence of Southern Vernacular Sounds in the Speech of Inner-City Black Detroiters / Walter F. Edwards

7. Southern Speech and Self-Expression in an African-American Woman's Story / Barbara Johnstone

8. Ambrose Gonzales's Gullah: What It May Tell Us about Variation / Katherine Wyly Mille

9. Gullah's Development: Myth and Sociohistorical Evidence / Salikoko S. Mufivene

10. The African Contribution to Southern States English / Crawford Feagin

11. Colonial Society and the Development of Louisiana Creole / Tom Klingler

12. Code-Switching and Loss of Inflection in Louisiana French / Michael D. Picone

13. Ethnic Identity, Americanization, and Survival of the Mother Tongue: The First- vs. the Second-Generation Chinese of Professionals in Memphis / Marvin K. L. Ching and Hsiang-te Kung

Part Two. Phonological, Morphosyntactic, Discourse, and Lexical Features

14. The Sociolinguistic Complexity of Quasi-Isolated Southern Coastal Communities / Walt Wolfram, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Kirk Hazen, Chris Craig

15. Pronunciation Variation in Eastern North Carolina / Bruce Southard

16. Variation in Tejano English: Evidence for Variable Lexical Phonology / Robert Bayley

17. Rule Ordering in the Phonology of Alabama-Georgia Consonants / William C. Taylor.

18. Solidarity Cues in New Orleans English / Felice Anne Coles

19. Social Meaning in Southern Speech from an Interactional Sociolinguistic Perspective: An Integrative Discourse Analysis of Terms of Address / Catherine E. Davies

20. That Muddy Mississippi of Falsehood Called History / Joan Weatherly

21. "Pictures from Life's Other Side": Southern Regionalism in Hank Williams's Luke the Drifter Recordings / Thomas L. Wilmeth

22. The Evolution of Ain't in African-American Vernacular English / Natalie Maynor

23. Auntie(-man) in the Caribbean and North America / Ronald R. Butters

24. The South in DARE / Allan Metcalf

25. DARE: Some Etymological Puzzles / Frederic G. Cassidy

26. Expletives and Euphemisms in DARE: An Initial Look / Luanne von Schneidemesser

27. LAGS and DARE: A Case of Mutualism / Joan H. Hall

Part Three. Methods of Sampling, Measurement, and Analysis

28. The South: The Touchstone / Dennis R. Preston

29. How Far North Is South? A Critique of Carver's North-South Dialect Boundary / Timothy C. Frazer

30. Regional Vocabulary in Missouri / Donald M. Lance and Rachel B. Faries

31. Geographical Influence on Lexical Choice: Changes in the 20th Century / Ellen Johnson

32. Generating Linguistic Feature Maps with Statistics / William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

33. Quantitative Mapping Techniques for Displaying Language Variation and Change / Tom Wikle

34. The Role of Social Processes in Language Variation and Change / Jan Tillery

35. An Ethnolinguistic Approach to the Study of Rural Southern AAVE / Patricia Cukor-Avila

36. Speaking Maps and Talking Worlds: Adolescent Language Usage in a New South Community / Boyd H. Davis, Michael Smilowitz, Leah Neely

37. Resolving Dialect Status: Levels of Evidence in Assessing African-American Vernacular English Forms / Walt Wolfram.

38. Understanding Birmingham / William Labov and Sharon Ash

References

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [574]-613) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8663-7

OCLC:

680493469