English in the Southern United States phần 8 ppt

... discourse aboutSoutherners,whetherthe Southerners in questionare from the coastalorthe mountain South and whether they are men or women. Travelers from the North in the mid nineteenth century noted that Southerners ... described Southerners (by “Southerners” he meant white southern men) as “hot-headed, indolent, unstable, and unjust” (McWhiney 1 988 : xiii). By the middle of th...

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... 169, 175, 176, 177, 179, 180 , 181 , 182 , 185 , 186 , 187 , 188 , 192 glossary 182 , 183 , 184 , 185 , 186 , 187 , 188 identity 180 , 181 phonology 180 , 182 websites 182 Yatspeak 181 , 182 New South(ern) 34 New ... 53 Cox, Kevin R. 206 creole(s) 2, 3, 11, 18, 37, 43, 49, 56, 58, 59, 60, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 72, 78, 83 , 84 , 85 , 86 , 110, 145, 175, 177, 180 , 183 , 185 , 188...

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... Schiffrin, and Baugh (eds.), 135–60. 1997. The African contribution to southern states English, ”inBer nstein, Nunnally, and Sabino (eds.), 123–39. 19 98. “Representing Southern States English: ... aspects of southern style in her bid to “sound southern. ” The resources of southernness are available to these women because of where they are from: they have heard people sound...

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... up in the pronunciation of the state name, with northern Louisiana favor- ing four syllables beginning [luz-] and southern Louisiana favoring five syllables beginning [luiz-]. The people of southern ... about Southern English as about southern music: Noting the “tangled genealogy” of southern musical styles, Edward L. Ayers [1992] insisted that southern music became mor...

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... behind (iy). 4. Long (iy) backs and falls, leaving (i) in high front position. The vowel charts of the men born in 188 1 (figure 8. 2) and 188 2 (figure 8. 4) and the women born in the 1950s (figures 8. 3 ... speech there, so they may no longer Vowel shifting in the southern states 131 Looking at the social dimension of vowel shifting in Memphis, Fridland (2001) foun...

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... with southern speech. They appear in popular dictionaries of southern speech (Mitchell 1976, 1 980 ), in literary worksrepresent- ing Southern dialect (Burkett 19 78) , and in films including southern ... levels. 8 Vowel shifting in the southern states   1 Introduction In 1972 it was first realized that there was a general shift in the vowels of not o...

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... period in southern speech crucial to the understanding of black/white speech relationships in the South. 5 In fact, as the 1 980 s unfolded there was a growing consensus among linguists about the ... to linguistic changes in the same way (Montgomery and Bailey 1 986 : 21). 2.3 Innovative approaches to variation The beginning of the 1 980 s marked a new era in the r...

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... the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) documents liketa as early as 180 8 in Virginia, 184 5 in Georgia, and 188 6 in the southern Appalac hians ”; Feagin (1979: 183 ) found earlier instances ... of the Jim Crow laws in the hinterland of the Southeast in the late nineteenth century. History sug- gests that, although discrimination was in place since th...

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... retentionist hypothesis, the belief that Southern English dialect largely consists of British dialectal forms preserved in the southern United States, by simply looking for southern speech forms in records ... earlier Southern English to have been a pivotal point in the transmission of English, especially northern English dialectal features, to the US. Another...

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... reaching the interior of Virginia in the 1730s and the Carolinas in the 1750s. They and their descendants settled and were culturally dominant in much of the interior or upper south – the Carolinas, ... chancy 1 The origins of Southern American English   1 Introduction The origins of Southern American English can be found on the islands off the shore...

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