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Title Language Variety in the New South : Contemporary Perspectives on Change and Variation / edited by Jeffrey Reaser, Eric Wilbanks, Karissa Wojcik, and Walt Wolfram
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

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Contents LAVIS: where are you going, where have you been? / William A. Kretzschmar Jr. -- [suthern], [suthuhn], [suthrun], [suthuhn], [sauthn], etc.: what we/they think/thought it is/was/will be / Dennis R. Preston -- Language and the internet in the new South / Becky Childs and Joel Schneier -- Performing southernness in country music / Catherine Evans Davies, with Caroline Myrick -- Appalachia, monophthongization, and intonation: rethinking tradition / Paul E. Reed -- Language variety in Louisiana: research trends and implications / Michael D. Picone -- Cajuns as southe(r)ne(r)s?: an examination of variable r-lessness in Cajun English / Katie Carmichael -- The continuing symbolic importance of French in Louisiana / Nathalie Dajko -- Sounding black: labeling and perceptions of African American voices on southern college campuses / Tracey L. Weldon -- Black is, black isn't: perceptions of language and blackness / Sonja L. Lanehart and Ayesha M. Malik -- (De)segregation: the impact of de facto and de jure segregation on African American English in the new South / Mary Kohn -- Community detection and the reversal of the southern vowel shift in Raleigh, North Carolina / Robin Dodsworth -- Where are you from?: immigrant stories of accent, belonging, and other experiences in the South / Agnes Bolonyai -- What a swarm of variables tells us about the formation of Mexican American English / Erik R. Thomas -- Spanish in North Carolina: English-origin loanwords in a newly forming Hispanic community / Jim Michnowicz, Alex Hyler, James Shepherd, and Sonya Trawick -- On the status of Miami as a southern city: defining language and region through demography and social history / Phillip M. Carter and Andrew Lynch -- Sociolinguistic outreach for the new South: looking back to move ahead / Kirk Hazen -- We must go home again: interdisciplinary models of progressive partnerships to promote linguistic justice in the new South / Anne H. Charity Hudley and Christine Mallinson -- Negotiating language presentation: linguists, communities, and producers / Walt Wolfram, Danica Cullinan, and Neal Hutcheson -- The role of the university in negotiating language revitalization / Hartwell S. Francis -- Language revitalization and sociolinguistics: a commentary on first language: the race to save Cherokee / Christian Koops -- Variationist research in the South: current perspectives and future directions / Eric Wilbanks
Notes Second chapter title includes five instances of the word "southern" using pronunciation variations in IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Spanish language -- Southern States
English language -- Southern States
Linguistic change -- Southern States
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
English language
Language and languages
Linguistic change
Spanish language
SUBJECT Southern States -- Language
Subject Southern States
Form Electronic book
Author Wolfram, Walt, 1941- editor.
Wojcik, Karissa, editor
Wilbanks, Eric, editor
Reaser, Jeffrey, 1976- editor.
ISBN 9781469638812
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