Language Variety in the New South

Contemporary Perspectives on Change and Variation

Jeffrey Reaser, Eric Wilbanks, Karissa Wojcik, Walt Wolfram (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

456 Seiten

2018
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3879-9 (ISBN)

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Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess the use and meaning of language in the American South, this comprehensive edited collection reflects the cutting-edge research in this area. The contributors use innovative methodologies to pave new pathways for understanding the social dynamics that shape the language in the South today.

Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess the use and meaning of language in the South, a region rich in dialects and variants, this comprehensive edited collection reflects the cutting-edge research presented at the fourth decennial meeting of Language Variety in the South in 2014. Focusing on the ongoing changes and surprising continuities associated with the contemporary South, the contributors use innovative methodologies to pave new pathways for understanding the social dynamics that shape the language in the South today.

Along with the editors, contributors to the volume include Agnes Bolonyai, Katie Carmichael, Phillip M. Carter, Becky Childs, Danica Cullinan, Nathalie Dajko, Catherine Evans Davies, Robin Dodsworth, Hartwell S. Francis, Kirk Hazen, Anne H. Charity Hudley, Neal Hutcheson, Alex Hyler, Mary Kohn, Christian Koops, William A. Kretzschmar Jr., Sonja L. Lanehart, Andrew Lynch, Ayesha M. Malik, Christine Mallinson, Jim Michnowicz, Caroline Myrick, Michael D. Picone, Dennis R. Preston, Paul E. Reed, Joel Schneier, James Shepherd, Erik R. Thomas, Sonya Trawick, and Tracey L. Weldon.

Jeffrey Reaser is associate professor of English at North Carolina State University. Eric Wilbanks is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Karissa Wojcik is a program manager in the Graduate School at North Carolina State University. Walt Wolfram is the William C. Friday Distinguished University Professor of English at North Carolina State University.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.03.2018
Zusatzinfo	18 halftones, 3 maps, 52 graphs, 32 tables
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 233 mm
Gewicht	795 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4696-3879-7 / 1469638797
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-3879-9 / 9781469638799
Zustand	Neuware