Social Life of Appalachian Englishes

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Social Life of Appalachian Englishes

A Sociolinguistic Introduction

Cramer, Jennifer; Burkette, Allison

Taylor & Francis Ltd

03/2024

152

Mole

Inglês

9781032224886

15 a 20 dias

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Glossary

Chapter 1: "It tickles him so good" - The Social Life of Language in Appalachia

Setting in

Appalachia as a construct

Perceptions of Appalachia

The study of language

Introducing sociolinguistics

Appalachia in previous sociolinguistic studies

Contextualizing Appalachian Englishes

Recollection

Discussion Questions

Exercises

Chapter 2: "She'd write him a dun" - Words and Meanings

Setting in

Variability in language

Vocabulary in Appalachia

What the LAP can tell us about an 'Appalachian vocabulary'

Appalachian vocabulary features in the LAP

A cottage industry

Fanning the lexical flames

Out of the fire and into the pan

Where you put your groceries

Recollection

Discussion Questions

Exercises

Chapter 3: "Build us a far" - Sounding Appalachian

Setting in

The study of speech sound

The sounds of Appalachian Englishes

Appalachian pronunciation features in the LAP

Hwaet happened to the /h/?

Intrusive consonants?

One vowel or two?

Recollection

Discussion Questions

Exercises

Chapter 4: "They didn't nobody starving" - Making Sense of Grammatical Variation

Setting in

The study of grammar

The grammatical features of Appalachian Englishes

Appalachian grammatical features in the LAP

Growed up too fast

We was all waiting

Three mile of bean plants

Recollection

Discussion Questions

Exercises

Chapter 5: "All he's talked about up that mountain" - Discourse and Narrative

Setting in

Discourse, narrative, and meaning

Appalachian discourses in the LAP

Excerpt 1: That's good cooking in that

Excerpt 2: Some people call 'em pokes and things

Excerpt 3: Them's quilts or coverlets

Excerpt 4: Well of course a pen [p?n] if you say it distinctly

Excerpt 5: Who? What? Y'all?

Recollection

Discussion Questions

Exercises

Chapter 6: "Roots of my raisin" - Perceptions of Appalachian Englishes

Setting in

Perceptual dialectology

Mental maps

Qualitative approaches

Insiders and outsiders

Where are Appalachian Englishes?

What are Appalachian Englishes?

Recollection

Discussion Questions

Exercises

Chapter 7: "A relatively distinct way of speaking" - Integrating Our Understandings

Setting in

Putting the "dialect" in perceptual dialectology

Mapping production and perceptions

Perception, production, and identity

Appalachia(n) as 'other'

Recollection

Discussion Questions

Exercises

Bibliography

Index
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regional language variation;dialect mapping methods;lexical diversity analysis;phonological features study;grammatical structures research;discourse analysis techniques;sociolinguistic identity formation in Appalachia