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Title Language variety in the South revisited / edited by Cynthia Bernstein, Thomas Nunnally, [and] Robin Sabino
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 656 pages) : illustations, maps
Contents Introduction : perspectives on language variety in the south ; Language variety in the South : a retrospective and assessment / Michael Montgomery -- Southern American English : a prospective / Guy Bailey -- Part one. Language contact with emphasis on the African diaspora ; Earlier Black English revisited / Edgar W Schneider -- An early representation of African-American English / Marianne Cooley -- Challenges and problems of recorded interviews / Jeutonne P. Brewer -- The variable persistence of Southern vernacular sounds in the speech of inner-city Black Detroiters / Walter F. Edwards -- Southern speech and self-expression in an African-American woman's story / Barbara Johnstone -- Ambrose Gonzales's Gullah : what it may tell us about variation / Katherine Wyly Mille -- Gullah's development : myth and sociohistorical evidence / Salikoko S. Mufwene -- The African contribution to Southern states English / Crawford Feagin -- Colonial society and the development of Louisiana Creole / Tom Klingler -- Code-switching and loss of inflection in Louisiana French / Michael D. Picone -- 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 ; The sociolinguistic complexity of quasi-isolated Southern coastal communities / Walt Wolfram, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Kirk Hazen, Chris Craig -- Pronunciation variation in Eastern North Carolina / Bruce Southard -- Variation in Tejano English : evidence for variable lexical phonology / Robert Bayley -- Rule ordering in the phonology of Alabama-Georgia consonants / William C. Taylor -- Solidarity cues in New Orleans English / Felice Anne Coles -- Social meaning in Southern speech from an interactional sociolinguistic perspective : an integrative discourse analysis of terms of address / Catherine E. Davies -- That muddy Mississippi of falsehood called "history" / Joan Weatherly -- "Pictures from Life's Other Side" : Southern regionalism in Hank Williams's Luke the Drifter recordings / Thomas L. Wilmeth -- The evolution of 'ain't' in African-American vernacular English / Natalie Maynor -- 'Auntie( -man)' in the Caribbean and North America / Ronald R. Butters -- The South in DARE / Allan Metcalf -- DARE : some etymological puzzles / Frederic G. Cassidy -- Expletives and euphemisms in DARE : an initial look / Luanne von Schneidemesser -- LAGS and DARE : a case of mutualism / Joan H. Hall
Part three. Methods of sampling, measurement, and analysis ; The South : the touchstone / Dennis R. Preston -- How far North is South? a critique of Carver's North-South dialect boundary / Timothy C. Frazer -- Regional vocabulary in Missouri / Donald M. Lance and Rachel B. Faries -- Geographical influence on lexical choice : changes in the 20th century / Ellen Johnson -- Generating linguistic feature maps with statistics / William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. -- Quantitative mapping techniques for displaying language variation and change / Tom Wikle -- The role of social processes in language variation and change / Jan Tillery -- An ethnolinguistic approach to the study of rural Southern AAVE / Patricia Cukor-Avila -- Speaking maps and talking worlds : adolescent language usage in a new South community / Boyd H. Davis, Michael Smilowitz, Leah Neely -- Resolving dialect status : levels of evidence in assessing African-American vernacular English forms / Walt Wolfram -- Understanding Birmingham / William Labov and Sharon Ash
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 574-613), and index
Notes Print version record
Subject English language -- Variation -- Southern States
English language -- Southern States -- Foreign elements
English language -- Social aspects -- Southern States
African Americans -- Southern States -- Languages
English language -- Dialects -- Southern States
Languages in contact -- Southern States
Black English -- Southern States
Americanisms -- Southern States
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
African Americans -- Languages
Americanisms
Black English
English language -- Dialects
English language -- Foreign elements
English language -- Social aspects
English language -- Variation
Language and languages
Languages in contact
SUBJECT Southern States -- Languages. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001329
Subject Southern States
Form Electronic book
Author Bernstein, Cynthia Goldin, 1947- editor.
Nunnally, Thomas., editor
Sabino, Robin., editor
ISBN 9780817386634
0817386637