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New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South
2015
Overview
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.
Publisher
University of Alabama Press,The University of Alabama Press
Subject
/ Americanisms -- Southern States
/ Dialects
/ English language -- Dialects -- Southern States
/ English language -- Southern States -- Pronunciation
/ English language -- Variation -- Southern States
/ Language and culture -- Southern States
/ Language and languages -- Dialects -- Southern States
/ Language and languages -- Southern States -- Pronunciation
/ Language and languages -- Variation -- Southern States
ISBN
0817318151, 9780817318154
