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New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South

New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South

Historical and Contemporary Approaches

Edited by Michael D. Picone and Catherine Evans Davies

Introduction by Michael D. Picone and Catherine Evans Davies

Contributions by Bridget L. Anderson, Guy H. Bailey, Kathryn Bartlett, Robert Bayley, Judith M. Bean, Linda Beito, Cynthia Bernstein, George Aaron Broadwell, Allison Burkette, Norma Cárdenas, Wallace Chafe, Becky Childs, Catherine Evans Davies, Boyd Davis, Stuart Davis, Sylvie Dubois, Connie Eble, Crawford Feagin, Valerie Fridland, Joan Houston Hall, Barbara Horvath, Thomas B. Klein, Thomas A. Klingler, Patricia Manning Lestrade, John M. Lipski, Ceil Lucas, Christine Mallinson, Lisa D. McNair, Michael B. Montgomery, Salikoko Mufwene, Pamela Munro, John Nerbonne, Janis B. Nuckolls, Michael D. Picone, Dennis R. Preston, Robert L. Rankin, Jeffrey Reaser, Blair A. Rudes, Edgar W. Schneider, Belinda Treviño Schouten, Robert G. Shackleton, Dena Shenk, David Sutcliffe, Erik R. Thomas, Rachel Shuttlesworth Thompson, Jan Tillery, Gerard Van Herk, Carlos Martin Vélez Salas, Luanne von Schneidemesser, Walt Wolfram and Laura Wright

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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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction - Michael D. Picone and Catherine Evans Davies
Part I. Historical Approaches
Indigenous Languages
2. American Indian Languages of the Southeast: An Introduction - Pamela Munro
3. A Profile of the Caddo Language - Wallace Chafe
4. The Ofo Language of Louisiana: Recovery of Grammar and Typology - Robert L. Rankin
5. Timucua-ta: Muskogean Parallels - George Aaron Broadwell
6. Pre-Columbian Links to the Caribbean: Evidence Connecting Cusabo to Taíno - Blair A. Rudes
Earlier Englishes of the South
7. The Crucial Century for English in the American South - Michael B. Montgomery
8. Southern American English in Perspective: A Quantitative Comparison with Other English and American Dialects - Robert Shackleton
9. Some Developments in Southern American English Grammar - Jan Tillery
10. Francis Lieber’s Americanisms as an Early Source on Southern Speech - Stuart Davis
11. Earlier Southern Englishes in Black and White: Corpus-Based Approaches - Edgar W. Schneider
The African Diaspora
12. Some Early Creole-Like Data from Slave Speakers: The Island of St. Helena, 1695–1711 - Laura Wright
13. Regional Variation in Nineteenth-Century African American English - Gerard Van Herk
14. Prima Facie Evidence for the Persistence of Creole Features in AfricanAmericanEnglish and Evidence for Residual Creole - David Sutcliffe
15. The Linguistic Status of Gullah-Geechee: Divergent Phonological Processes - Thomas B. Klein
Earlier French of the Gulf South
16. French Dialects of Louisiana: A Revised Typology - Michael D. Picone
17. From French to English in Louisiana: The Prudhomme Family’s Story - Connie C. Eble
Part II. Contemporary Approaches
Across the South
18. The South in DARE Revisited - Joan Houston Hall and Luanne von Schneidemesser
19. The South: Still Different - Dennis R. Preston
20. Demography as Destiny? Population Change and the Future of Southern American English - Guy Bailey
English in the Contemporary South: Persistence and Change
21. A Century of Sound Change in Alabama - Crawford Feagin
22. Various Variation Aggregates in the LAMSAS South - John Nerbonne
23. The Persistence of Dialect Features - Sylvie Dubois and Barbara Horvath
English in the Contemporary South: Discourse Approaches
24. Southern Storytelling: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives - Catherine Evans Davies
25. The Southern and Southwestern Discourse Styles of Two Texas Women - Judith M. Bean
26. We Ain’t Done Yet: Dialect Depiction and Language Ideology - Rachel Shuttlesworth Thompson
English in the Contemporary South: African American Language Issues
27. Race, Racialism, and the Study of Language Evolution in America - Salikoko Mufwene
28. The Language of Black Women in the Smoky Mountain Region of Appalachia - Christine Mallinson and Becky Childs
29. The Sound Symbolism of Self in Innovative Naming Practices inan African American Community - Janis B. Nuckolls and Linda Beito
English in the Contemporary South: Black and White Speech and the Complexities of Relationship
30. An Experiment on Cues Used for Identification of Voices as African American or European American - Erik R. Thomas and Jeffrey Reaser
31. What We Hear and What It Expresses: The Perception and Meaning ofVowel Differences among Dialects - Valerie Fridland and Kathryn Bartlett
32. A Quantitative Acoustic Approach to /ai/ Glide-Weakening among Detroit African American and Appalachian White Southern Migrants - Bridget L. Anderson
33. The Spread of the cot/caught Merger in the Speech of Memphians: An Ethnolinguistic Marker? - Valerie Fridland
34. Phonological Variation in Louisiana ASL: An Exploratory Study - Robert Bayley and Ceil Lucas
English in the Contemporary South: Language and Identity
35. Constructing Identity: The Use of a-Prefixing and Nonstandard Past Tense in Narration to Create a Community Voice - Allison Burkette
36. Negotiating Linguistic Capital in Economic Decline: Dialect Change in Mill Villager and Farmer Speech - Lisa D. McNair
37. Lexical Features of Jewish English in the Southern United States - Cynthia Bernstein
Louisiana French
38. Beyond Cajun: Toward an Expanded View of Regional French in Louisiana - Thomas A. Klingler
39. Whither Cajun French: Language Persistence and Dialectal Upsurges - Sylvie Dubois
Latino Language Issues
40. Is “Spanglish” the Third Language of the South? Truth and Fantasy about US Spanish - John M. Lipski
41. Language Acquisition and Social Integration of Hispanics in Northeast Mississippi - Patricia Manning Lestrade
42. Puerto Rican Spanish in South Texas: Variation in Subject Personal Pronouns - Carlos Martin Vélez Salas, Belinda Treviño Schouten, Norma Cárdenas, and Robert Bayley
Language in the South and the Public Interest
43. Stylization, Aging, and Cultural Competence: Why Health Care in the South Needs Linguistics - Boyd Davis and Dena Shenk
44. Sociolinguistic Engagement in Community Perspective - Walt Wolfram
Conclusion: Perspectives, Achievements, and Remaining Challenges - Walt Wolfram
Contributors
Index

Michael D. Picone is a professor and former chair of the department of Modern Languages and Classics at the University of Alabama, author of Anglicisms, Neologisms, and Dynamic French, and coeditor of the Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities. Catherine Evans Davies is a professor and former chair of the department of English at the University of Alabama and coeditor of English and Ethnicity.

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