Language Variety in the South Revisited

by Bernstein, Cynthia; Nunnally, Thomas; Sabino, Robin

• ISBN13: 9780817308827
• ISBN10: 0817308822
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

Top linguists from diverse fields address language varieties in the South. Language Variety in the South Revisitedis 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi	(2)
Acknowledgments	xiii
INTRODUCTION. PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE VARIETY IN THE SOUTH	1	(32)
1 Language Variety in the South: A Retrospective and Assessment	3	(18)
Michael Montgomery
2 Southern American English: A Prospective	21	(12)
Guy Bailey
PART ONE. LANGUAGE CONTACT WITH EMPHASIS ON THE AFRICAN DIASPORA	33	(138)
3 Earlier Black English Revisited	35	(16)
Edgar W. Schneider
4 An Early Representation of African-American English	51	(8)
Marianne Cooley
5 Challenges and Problems of Recorded Interviews	59	(17)
Jeutonne P. Brewer
6 The Variable Persistence of Southern Vernacular Sounds in the Speech of Inner-City Black Detroiters	76	(11)
Walter F. Edwards
7 Southern Speech and Self-Expression in an African-American Woman's Story	87	(11)
Barbara Johnstone
8 Ambrose Gonzales's Gullah: What It May Tell Us about Variation	98	(15)
Katherine Wyly Mille
9 Gullah's Development: Myth and Sociohistorical Evidence	113	(10)
Salikoko S. Mufwene
10 The African Contribution to Southern States English	123	(17)
Crawford Feagin
11 Colonial Society and the Development of Louisiana Creole	140	(12)
Tom Klingler
12 Code-Switching and Loss of Inflection in Louisiana French	152	(11)
Michael D. Picone
13 Ethnic Identity, Americanization, and Survival of the Mother Tongue: The First-vs. the Second-Generation Chinese of Professionals in Memphis	163	(8)
Marvin K. L. Ching
Hsiang-te Kung
PART TWO. PHONOLOGICAL, MORPHOSYNTACTIC, DISCOURSE, AND LEXICAL FEATURES	171	(138)
14 The Sociolinguistic Complexity of Quasi-Isolated Southern Coastal Communities	173	(15)
Walt Wolfram
Natalie Schilling-Estes
Kirk Hazen
Chris Craig
15 Pronunciation Variation in Eastern North Carolina	188	(9)
Bruce Southard
16 Variation in Tejano English: Evidence for Variable Lexical Phonology	197	(13)
Robert Bayley
17 Rule Ordering in the Phonology of Alabama-Georgia Consonants	210	(9)
William C. Taylor
18 Solidarity Cues in New Orleans English	219	(6)
Felice Anne Coles
19 Social Meaning in Southern Speech from an Interactional Sociolinguistic Perspective: An Integrative Discourse Analysis of Terms of Address	225	(17)
Catherine E. Davies
20 That Muddy Mississippi of Falsehood Called History	242	(8)
Joan Weatherly
21 "Pictures from Life's Other Side": Southern Regionalism in Hank Williams's Luke the Drifter Recordings	250	(6)
Thomas L. Wilmeth
22 The Evolution of Ain't in African-American Vernacular English	256	(5)
Natalie Maynor
23 Auntie(-man) in the Caribbean and North America	261	(5)
Ronald R. Butters
24 The South in DARE	266	(11)
Allan Metcalf
25 DARE: Some Etymological Puzzles	277	(5)
Frederic G. Cassidy
26 Expletives and Euphemisms in DARE: An Initial Look	282	(15)
Luanne von Schneidemesser
27 LAGS and DARE: A Case of Mutualism	297	(12)
Joan H. Hall
PART THREE. METHODS OF SAMPLING, MEASUREMENT, AND ANALYSIS	309	(265)
28 The South: The Touchstone	311	(41)
Dennis R. Preston
29 How Far North Is South? A Critique of Carver's North-South Dialect Boundary	352	(9)
Timothy C. Frazer
30 Regional Vocabulary in Missouri	361	(21)
Donald M. Lance
Rachel B. Faries
31 Geographical Influence on Lexical Choice: Changes in the 20th Century	382	(10)
Ellen Johnson
32 Generating Linguistic Feature Maps with Statistics	392	(25)
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.
33 Quantitative Mapping Techniques for Displaying Language Variation and Change	417	(17)
Tom Wikle
34 The Role of Social Processes in Language Variation and Change	434	(13)
Jan Tillery
35 An Ethnolinguistic Approach to the Study of Rural Southern AAVE	447	(16)
Patricia Cukor-Avila
36 Speaking Maps and Talking Worlds: Adolescent Language Usage in a New South Community	463	(27)
Boyd H. Davis
Michael Smilowitz
Leah Neely
37 Resolving Dialect Status: Levels of Evidence in Assessing African-American Vernacular English Forms	490	(18)
Walt Wolfram
38 Understanding Birmingham	508	(66)
William Labov
Sharon Ash
References	574	(40)
Contributors	614	(2)
Index	616