John Russell Rickford

Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

By the award-winning former president of the Linguistic Society of America, this collection of some of John Russell Rickford's pioneering works shows how linguists in sociolinguistics and creole studies can benefit from utilizing data, theories and methods from each other, as they more frequently did in the 1960s and 1970s, when both subfields, in their modern forms at least, were getting started. The volume addresses fundamental sociolinguistic topics such as social class, style, fieldwork, speech community, sociolinguistic competence and language attitudes with data from Guyanese and other Caribbean creoles. Recurrent concepts are also considered including language versatility, variation and change, vernacular use, school success and criminal justice in African America and the Caribbean, using models, case studies and methodologies from sociolinguistics. Theoretical and applied scholars, students apprehensive about sociolinguistic fieldwork, and those considering dynamic methods like implicational scaling about which little is written in linguistics textbooks, will find this volume invaluable. Includes a Foreword by Gillian Sankoff.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108577380
• Artikelnr.: 57076830

Autorenporträt

John Russell Rickford is J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities and Linguistics at Stanford University, California. Author of over 100 articles and author/editor of fourteen books in Linguistics, John won the American Book Award in 2000 for Spoken Soul (2000), co-authored with his son Russell, and the 'Best Paper in Language Award, 2016' for a paper (co-authored with Sharese King and included in this volume) on the 2013 trial of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Gillian Sankoff; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1.
Sociolinguistic fieldwork in a racial and political maelstrom: getting in,
getting on, and primary recording instruments and techniques; 2. Symbol of
powerlessness and degeneracy? Or symbol of solidarity and truth?
Paradoxical attitudes towards pidgins and creoles with Elizabeth Closs
Traugott; 3. 'Me Tarzan, you Jane!': cognition, expression and the creole
speaker; 4. The haves and have nots: sociolinguistic surveys and the
assessment of speaker competence; 5. Connections between sociolinguistics
and pidgin-creole studies; 6. Implicational scales; 7. Variation and the
versatility approach to language arts in schools and societies with Angela
E. Rickford; 8. Le Page's theoretical and applied legacy in
sociolinguistics and creole studies; 9. The social and the linguistic in
sociolinguistic variation: Mii en noo (me ain' know); 10. A variationist
approach to subject-aux question inversion in Bajan and other Caribbean
creole Englishes, AAVE and Appalachian with Robin Melnick; 11. Situation:
stylistic variation in sociolinguistic corpora and theory; 12. Language and
linguistic on trial: hearing Rachel Jeantel (and other vernacular speakers)
in the courtroom and beyond with Sharese King; 13 The continuing need for
new approaches to social class analysis in sociolinguistics; 14. Concord
and conflict in the speech community; 15. The joy of sociolinguistic
fieldwork.