edited by Cynthia Bernstein, Thomas E. Nunnally and Robin Sabino contributions by Marvin K. L. Ching, Felice Anne Coles, Marianne Cooley, Chris Craig, Patricia Cukor-Avila, Catherine Evans Davies, Boyd Davis, Walter F. Edwards, Rachel B. Faries, Crawford Feagin, Timothy C. Frazer, Joan Houston Hall, Kirk Hazen, Ellen Johnson, Barbara Johnstone, Thomas A. Klingler, William A. Kretzschmar, Hsiang-te Kung, William Labov, Donald M. Lance, Natalie Maynor, Allan Metcalf, Katherine Wyly Mille, Michael B Montgomery, Salikoko Mufwene, Leah Neely, Michael D. Picone, Dennis R. Preston, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Edgar W. Schneider, Sharon Ash, Michael Smilowitz, Bruce Southard, William D. Taylor, Jan Tillery, Luanne von Schneidemesser, Joan Weatherly, Tom Wikle, Thomas Wilmeth, Walt Wolfram, Guy H. Bailey, Robert Bayley, Jeutonne P. Brewer, Ronald R. Butters and Frederic G. Cassidy
University of Alabama Press, 1994 Cloth: 978-0-8173-0882-7 | Paper: 978-0-8173-5744-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-8663-4 Library of Congress Classification PE2922.L37 1997 Dewey Decimal Classification 427.975
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Cynthia Bernstein is Associate Professor of English, Thomas Nunnally is Associate Professor of English, and Robin Sabino is Assistant Professor of English, all at Auburn University.
REVIEWS
“This book is a state-of-the-art representation of scholarship on African-English language contact in the southern United States, on features of southern English, and on methods for studying and mapping linguistic variation within and across communities. Its unique contribution is that it attempts to bring together scholars from a variety of perspectives in a conversation with each other about the varieties of language used with one particular region.” –Patricia C. Nichols, San Jose State University
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“A significant contribution to scholarly knowledge on the subject of language variation in general and one language variety in particular—southern American English. The essays are solidly written and encompass sociolinguistics, traditional and modern dialectology, discourse analysis, and lexicography.” –George Dorrill, Southeastern LouisianaUniversity
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction.
Perspectives on Language Variety in the South
1
Language Variety in the South: A Retrospective and Assessment
Montgomery,
Michael
2
Southern American English: A Prospective
Bailey,
Guy
Part One.
Language Contact with Emphasis on the African Diaspora
3
Earlier Black English Revisited
W. Schneider,
Edgar
4
An Early Representation of African-American English
Cooley,
Marianne
5
Challenges and Problems of Recorded Interviews
P. Brewer,
Jeutonne
6
The Variable Persistence of Southern Vernacular Sounds in the Speech of Inner-City Black Detroiters
F. Edwards,
Walter
7
Southern Speech and Self-Expression in an African-American Woman's Story
Johnstone,
Barbara
8
Ambrose Gonzales's Gullah: What It May Tell Us about Variation
Wyly Mille,
Katherine
9
Gullah's Development: Myth and Sociohistorical Evidence
S. Mufwene,
Salikoko
10
The African Contribution to Southern States English
Feagin,
Crawford
11
Colonial Society and the Development of Louisiana Creole
Klingler,
Tom
12
Code-Switching and Loss of Inflection in Louisiana French
D. Picone,
Michael
13
Ethnic Identity, Americanization, and Survival of the Mother Tongue: The First- vs. the Second-Generation Chinese of Professionals in Memphis
K. L. Ching,
Marvin
Kung,
Hsiang-te
Part Two.
Phonological, Morphosyntactic, Discourse, and Lexical Features
14
The Sociolinguistic Complexity of Quasi-Isolated Southern Coastal Communities
Wolfram,
Walt
Schilling-Estes,
Natalie
Hazen,
Kirk
Craig,
Chris
15
Pronunciation Variation in Eastern North Carolina
Southard,
Bruce
16
Variation in Tejano English: Evidence for Variable Lexical Phonology
Bayley,
Robert
17
Rule Ordering in the Phonology of Alabama-Georgia Consonants
C. Taylor,
William
18
Solidarity Cues in New Orleans English
Anne Coles,
Felice
19
Social Meaning in Southern Speech from an Interactional Sociolinguistic Perspective: An Integrative Discourse Analysis of Terms of Address
E. Davies,
Catherine
20
That Muddy Mississippi of Falsehood Called History
Weatherly,
Joan
21
“Pictures from Life's Other Side”: Southern Regionalism in Hank Williams's Luke the Drifter Recordings
L. Wilmeth,
Thomas
22
The Evolution of Ain't in African-American Vernacular English
Maynor,
Natalie
23
Auntie(-man) in the Caribbean and North America
R. Butters,
Ronald
24
The South in DARE
Metcalf,
Allan
25
DARE: Some Etymological Puzzles
G. Cassidy,
Frederic
26
Expletives and Euphemisms in DARE: An Initial Look
von Schneidemesser,
Luanne
27
LAGS and DARE: A Case of Mutualism
H. Hall,
Joan
Part Three.
Methods of Sampling, Measurement, and Analysis
28
The South: The Touchstone
R. Preston,
Dennis
29
How Far North Is South? A Critique of Carver's North-South Dialect Boundary
C. Frazer,
Timothy
30
Regional Vocabulary in Missouri
M. Lance,
Donald
B. Faries,
Rachel
31
Geographical Influence on Lexical Choice: Changes in the 20th Century
Johnson,
Ellen
32
Generating Linguistic Feature Maps with Statistics
A. Kretzschmar,
William
33
Quantitative Mapping Techniques for Displaying Language Variation and Change
Wikle,
Tom
34
The Role of Social Processes in Language Variation and Change
Tillery,
Jan
35
An Ethnolinguistic Approach to the Study of Rural Southern AAVE
Cukor-Avila,
Patricia
36
Speaking Maps and Talking Worlds: Adolescent Language Usage in a New South Community
H. Davis,
Boyd
Smilowitz,
Michael
Neely,
Leah
37
Resolving Dialect Status: Levels of Evidence in Assessing African-American Vernacular English Forms
