The Routledge companion to the work of John R. Rickford / edited by Renée Blake and Isabelle Buchstaller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blake, Renée, editor.

Buchstaller, Isabelle, editor.

Rickford, John R., 1949- honouree.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics.

Languages in contact.

Language and culture.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

System Details:

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Summary:

This comprehensive collection is the first full book-length volume to bring together writing focused around and inspired by the work of John Rickford and his role in sociolinguistic research over the last four decades. Featuring contributions from more than 40 leading scholars in the field, the volume integrates both historical and current perspectives on key topics in Rickford's body of work at the intersection of language and society, highlighting the influence of his work from diverse fields such as sociolinguistics, stylistics, creole studies, and language and education. The volume is organized around four sections, each representing one of the fundamental strands in Rickford's scholarship over the course of his career, bookended by short vignettes that feature stories from the field to more broadly contextualize his intellectual legacy: Language contact from a sociolinguistic and sociohistorical point of view The political ramifications of linguistic heterogeneity The stylistic implications of language variation and change The educational implications of linguistic heterogeneity and social injustice Taken together, The Routledge Companion to the Work of John R. Rickford serves as a platform to showcase Rickford's pioneering contributions to the field and, in turn, to socially reflective linguistic research more generally, making this key reading for students and researchers in sociolinguistics, creole studies, language and style, and language and education.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Contributors; John R. Rickford Publications; PART I Introduction; 1 Introduction to the Volume; 2 The Makings of a Linguist: John R. Rickford's Education in His Native Guyana; PART II Exploring Language Contact From a Sociolinguistic and Sociohistorical Point of View; 3 Introduction; 4 In the Fisherman's Net: Language Contact in a Sociolinguistics Context; 5 African-Indian-American South and Caribbean Worlds: Connecting With John R. Rickford's Language Contact Research

6 Ideophones in Guyanese Speech: An Inventory of Depictive Lexemes and Implications for (De)Creolization7 Systemic Linguistic Discrimination and Disenfranchisement in the Creolophone Caribbean: The Case of the St. Lucian Legal System; 8 The English Words in Sranan: From Where, From Whom, and How?; 9 Another Look at the Creolist Hypothesis of AAVE Origins; 10 Rickford's List of African American English Grammatical Features: An Update; 11 The 'Aks' of Its Day?: Revisiting Invariant Am in Early Black English; 12 Viewing Ex-Slave Narratives From a Different Angle: Variation and Discourse

13 Race, Class, and Linguistic Camouflage: Remote Past BEEN and the Divergence Debate Revisited14 The Sociolinguistic Ramifications of Social Injustice: The Case of Black ASL; 15 Ethnolinguistic Infusion at Sephardic Adventure Camp; PART III The Political Ramifications of Linguistic Heterogeneity; 16 Introduction; 17 Giving Voice to Despair and Defiance: Rickford in Guyana; 18 American Mestizos in the Philippines: 'Mongrelization' and 'Mixedness' in American Colonial Media Discourse; 19 Family Matters: Seminal Rickford Contributions to Kinesics, Education, Linguistics, and Law

20 'Are You Soul Folk, Baby?' Black English, Struggle, and Consciousness in the 1960s and 1970s21 We Should Declare AAL a Separate Language, Although There's No Scientific Reason (Not) To; 22 Where Sociolinguistics and Speech Science Meet: The Physiological and Acoustic Consequences of Underbite in a Multilectal Speaker of African American English; 23 Credibility Without Intelligibility: Implications for Hearing Vernacular Speakers; 24 Using Pharyngeals Out of Context: Linguistic Stereotypes in Parodic Performances of Mizrahi Hebrew Speakers

25 Sociolinguists Trying to Make a Difference: Race, Research, and Linguistic Activism26 Linguistic Justice: Evaluating the Speech of Asylum Claimants; 27 Linguistics on Trial, Under Arrest, and in Prison: On Sharing Sociolinguistic and Forensic Linguistic Knowledge With Attorneys, Law Enforcement Practitioners, and Incarcerated Persons; 28 Implicit Sociolinguistic Bias and Social Justice; 29 Forging New Ways of Hearing Diversity: The Politics of Linguistic Heterogeneity in the Work of John R. Rickford; PART IV The Stylistic Implications of Language Variation and Change; 30 Introduction

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780429427886

0429427883

9780429765315

0429765312

9780429765322

0429765320

9780429765339

0429765339

OCLC:

1097465640

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