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Author(s): Michael D. Picone, Catherine Evans Davies (eds.
ISBN(s): 9780817318154, 0817318151
Edition: 2
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Year: 2015
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ISBN 10: 0817318151

ISBN 13: 9780817318154

Author: Michael D. Picone, Catherine Evans Davies

The third installment in the landmark LAVIS (Language Variety in the South) series, New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches brings together essays devoted to the careful examination and elucidation of the rich linguistic diversity of the American South, updating and broadening the work of the earlier volumes by more fully capturing the multifaceted configuration of languages and dialects in the South.
 
Beginning with an introduction to American Indian languages of the Southeast, five fascinating essays discuss indigenous languages, including Caddo, Ofo, and Timucua, and evidence for the connection between the Pre-Columbian Southeast and the Caribbean.
 
Five essays explore the earlier Englishes of the South, covering topics such as the eighteenth century as the key period in the differentiation of Southern American English and the use of new quantitative methods to trace the transfer of linguistic features from England to America. They examine a range of linguistic resources, such as plantation overseers’ writings, modern blues lyrics, linguistic databases, and lexical and locutional compilations that reveal the region’s distinctive dialectal traditions.
 
New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches widens the scope of inquiry into the linguistic influences of the African diaspora as evidenced in primary sources and records. A comprehensive essay redefines the varieties of French in Louisiana, tracing the pathway from Colonial Louisiana to the emergence of Plantation Society French in a diglossic relationship with Louisiana Creole. A further essay maps the shift from French to English in family documents.
 
An assortment of essays on English in the contemporary South touch on an array of compelling topics from discourse strategies to dialectal emblems of identity to stereotypes in popular perception.
 
Essays about recent Latino immigrants to the South bring the collection into the twenty-first century, taking into account the dramatic increase in the population of Spanish speakers and illuminating the purported role of “Spanglish,” the bilingual lives of Spanish-speaking Latinos in Mississippi, and the existence of regional Spanish dialectal diversity.

Table of contents:

  1. Introduction

  2. American Indian Languages of the Southeast: An Introduction

  3. A Profile of the Caddo Language

  4. The Ofo Language of Louisiana: Recovery of Grammar and Typology

  5. Timucua -ta: Muskogean Parallels

  6. Pre-Columbian Links to the Caribbean: Evidence Connecting Cusabo to Taíno

  7. The Crucial Century for English in the American South

  8. Southern American English in Perspective: A Quantitative Comparison with Other English and American Dialects

  9. Some Developments in Southern American English Grammar

  10. Francis Lieber’s Americanisms as an Early Source on Southern Speech

  11. Earlier Southern Englishes in Black and White

  12. Some Early Creole-Like Data from Slave Speakers: The Island of St. Helena, 1695–1711

  13. Regional Variation in Nineteenth-Century African American English

  14. Prima Facie Evidence for the Persistence of Creole Features in African American English and Evidence for Residual Creole

  15. The Linguistic Status of Gullah-Geechee: Divergent Phonological Processes

  16. French Dialects of Louisiana: A Revised Typology

  17. From French to English in Louisiana: The Prudhomme Family’s Story

  18. The South in DARE Revisited

  19. The South: Still Different

  20. Demography as Destiny? Population Change and the Future of Southern American English

  21. A Century of Sound Change in Alabama

  22. Various Variation Aggregates in the LAMSAS South

  23. The Persistence of Dialect Features

  24. Southern Storytelling: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

  25. The Southern and Southwestern Discourse Styles of Two Texas Women

  26. We Ain’t Done Yet: Dialect Depiction and Language Ideology

  27. Race, Racialism, and the Study of Language Evolution in America

  28. The Language of Black Women in the Smoky Mountain Region of Appalachia

  29. The Sound Symbolism of Self in Innovative Naming Practices in an African American Community

  30. An Experiment on Cues Used for Identification of Voices as African American or European American

  31. What We Hear and What It Expresses: The Perception and Meaning of Vowel Differences among Dialects

  32. A Quantitative Acoustic Approach to /ai/ Glide-Weakening among Detroit African American and Appalachian White Southern Migrants

  33. The Spread of the cot/caught Merger in the Speech of Memphians: An Ethnolinguistic Marker?

  34. Phonological Variation in Louisiana ASL: An Exploratory Study

  35. Constructing Identity: The Use of a-Prefixing and Nonstandard Past Tense in Narration to Create a Community Voice

  36. Negotiating Linguistic Capital in Economic Decline: Dialect Change in Mill Villager and Farmer Speech

  37. Lexical Features of Jewish English in the Southern United States

  38. Beyond Cajun: Toward an Expanded View of Regional French in Louisiana

  39. Whither Cajun French: Language Persistence and Dialectal Upsurges

  40. Is “Spanglish” the Third Language of the South? Truth and Fantasy about US Spanish

  41. Language Acquisition and Social Integration of Hispanics in Northeast Mississippi

  42. Puerto Rican Spanish in South Texas: Variation in Subject Personal Pronouns

  43. Stylization, Aging, and Cultural Competence: Why Health Care in the South Needs Linguistics

  44. Sociolinguistic Engagement in Community Perspective

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