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Language Variety in the South Revisited

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 Louisiana University

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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

Wolfram, Walt

38
Understanding Birmingham

Labov, William
Ash, Sharon

References

Contributors

Index

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