Language Variety in the New South (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary Perspectives on Change and Variation
Redaktion: Reaser, Jeffrey; Wolfram, Walt; Wojcik, Karissa; Wilbanks, Eric

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781469638812
• Artikelnr.: 52381835

Autorenporträt

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.