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Summary
This volume brings together work by linguists and linguistic anthropologists not only on southern varieties of English, but also on other languages spoken in the region. The contributors, who often draw from their own involvement in language maintenance or linguistic heritage movements, engage several of the fields' most pressing issues as they relate to the southern speech communities: tension between linguistic scholarship and linguistic activism; discourse genres; language contact; language ideology; and the relationship between language shift, language maintenance, and cultural reproduction.Acknowledging the role of immigration and settlement in shaping southern linguistic and cultural diversity, the volume covers a range of Native American, African American, and Euro-American speech communities. One essay explores the implementation of "dialect awareness programs" and the ethics of the relationship between researchers and North Carolina's Lumbee and Ocracoke communities. Another essay focuses on a single Appalachian community to explore the interplay between linguistic variables commonly associated with Appalachian speech and others commonly associated with African American speech.Other essay topics include Creek language preservation efforts by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the history of language contact and linguistic diversity in the Carolinas, and the changing relationship between English and Mvskoke in Oklahoma. Also covered are the stereotypes, varied realities, and language ideologies associated with Appalachian speech communities; the mobilization of dialect by Cajun English speakers for creating humor, expressing solidarity, and setting boundaries; and the creative use of academic and religious discursive models in the construction of Melungeon and Appalachian Scotch-Irish discourses and identities.
Author Biography
Margaret Bender is an assistant professor of anthropology at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is the author of Signs of Cherokee Culture.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Introduction: Power and Belief in Southern Language | p. 1 |
Dialect Awareness in Community Perspective | p. 15 |
Multilingualism in the South: A Carolinas Case Study | p. 37 |
Defining Appalachian English | p. 50 |
Constructing Ethnolinguistic Groups: A Sociolinguistic Case Study | p. 66 |
Language and Culture Pullout Program: Seminole Initiatives to Preserve Language | p. 80 |
Medicine-Making Language among the Muskogee: The Effects of Changing Attitudes | p. 90 |
Not with a Southern Accent: Cajun English and Ethnic Identity | p. 104 |
Identity, Hybridity, and Linguistic Ideologies of Racial Language in the Upper South | p. 120 |
List of Contributors | p. 139 |
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