Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies
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Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies

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Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies

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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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Foreword
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Introduction
  12. 1 Sociolinguistic Fieldwork in a Racial and Political Maelstrom: Getting In, Getting On and Primary Recording Instruments and Techniques
  13. 2 Symbol of Powerlessness and Degeneracy, or Symbol of Solidarity and Truth?: Paradoxical Attitudes toward Pidgins and Creoles
  14. 3 “Me Tarzan, You Jane!”: Adequacy, Expressiveness and the Creole Speaker
  15. 4 The Haves and Have Nots: Sociolinguistic Surveys and the Assessment of Speaker Competence
  16. 5 Connections between Sociolinguistics and Pidgin-Creole Studies
  17. 6 Implicational Scales
  18. 7 Variation and the Versatility Approach to Language Arts in Schools and Societies
  19. 8 Le Page’s Theoretical and Applied Legacy in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies
  20. 9 The Social and the Linguistic in Sociolinguistic Variation: Mii en noo (Me ain’ know)
  21. 10 A Variationist Approach to Subject–Aux Question Inversion in Bajan and Other Caribbean Creole Englishes, AAVE and Appalachian
  22. 11 Situation: Stylistic Variation in Sociolinguistic Corpora and Theory
  23. 12 Language and Linguistics on Trial: Hearing Rachel Jeantel (and Other Vernacular Speakers) in the Courtroom and Beyond
  24. 13 The Continuing Need for New Approaches to Social Class Analysis in Sociolinguistics
  25. 14 Concord and Conflict in the Speech Community
  26. 15 The Joy of Sociolinguistic Fieldwork
  27. Afterword, with a Poem by Rachel Jeantel
  28. Index