Sociolinguistic Variation
Data, Theory, and Analysis
edited by Jennifer Arnold, Renée Blake, Brad Davidson, Scott Schwenter, and Julie Solomon
This volume collects selected papers from the twenty-third New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV23) conference held at Stanford University. It is a collection of innovative papers on the newest developments in research on variation. The range of topics covered in this collection include: phonological variation, morphosyntactic variation, register and style, discourse, codeswitching, and language change. A foreword by John Rickford ties the collection together. This volume will be of interest to sociolinguists, sociologists, and any scholar interested in comparative linguistics.
Jennifer Arnold, Renée Blake, Brad Davidson, Scott Schwenter, and Julie Solomon were young scholars at Stanford University, involved in the sociolinguistics community at the time of this publication.
- Preface
- Part I: Phonological Variation
- Freedom of Movement: /uw /-fronting in the Midwest
Sharon Ash
- The (ING) variable: Patterns of Variation in a Fraternity
Scott Fabius Kiesling
- Competing Norms and Selective Assimilation: Mixing Outer Banks and Southern /⦆/
Walt Wolfram, Adrianne Cheek, and Hal Hammond
- On the Social Basis of Phonetic Resistance: THe Shifting Status of Ourter Banks /ay/
Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes
- Part II: Morphosyntactic Variation
- Null and Expressed Pronoun Variation in Mexican-descent Children's Spanish
Robert Bayley and Lucinda Pease-Alverez
- Linguistic Preference and Prescriptive Dictum: On the Phonological and Morphological Justification of Ain't
Kirk Hazen
- Sorting out Morphosyntactic Variation in Acadian French: The Importance of the Linguistic Marketplace
Ruth King and Terry Nadasdi
- Copula Variability in the Belize Continuum and the Notion of the Creole Continuum
Bettina Migge
- Accounting for Variable Word-final Deletion with Optimality Theory
Naomi Nagy and Bill Reynolds
- Variation in Negative Inversion in AAVE: An Optimality Theoretic Approach
Peter Sells, John Rickford, and Thomas Wasow
- The Problem of Syntactic Variation
Donald Winford
- Part III: Register and Style
- Compliments, Compliment Responses, and Politeness in the African-American Community
Anita Henderson
- Discourse Genre, Type of Situation and Topic of Conversation in Relation to Phonological Variables in Puerto Rican Spanish
Antonio medina-Rivera
- Contact with Media and Linguistic Variation
Anthony J. Naro and Maria Marta Pereira Scherre
- Sociolinguistic Factors in Sign Languae Research
Peter L. Patrick and Melanie Metzger
- Intonation and Register Variation: The Case of the English Negative
Malcah Yaeger-Dror
- Part IV: Discourse
- Engaging the Reader: The Changing Use of Connectives in Newspaper Discourse
Colleen Cotter
- Social Effects and Interactional Dynamics: Their Relative Importance for a Discourse Procedure
Sylvie Dubois
- OK-a Dynamic Discourse in Montréal French
Troy Heisler
- Laughter as Interaction Strategy: Discursive and Phonetic Aspects
Steve LaGreca, Marty Laforest, Ahmed Alioua, and Diane Vincent
- Whose Story is this?: Point of View Variation and Group Identity in Oral Narrative
Charlotte Linde
- Variation in Narrative Structure
Erik Møller
- A Study of the Use of Reported Speech in Spoken Language
Diane Vincent and Sylvie Dubois
- Part V: Codeswitching
- Codeswitching in a Bidealectal School
Stella Maris Bortoni-Ricardo
- A Competence Model of Codeswitching
Shahrzad Mahootian
- Intrasentential Codeswitching in Diglossic Settings and Its Implications for Linguistic Variation and Language Change
Keith Walters
- Organizational Principles Behind Codeswitching and Interlanguage Development in Early Adult Second Language Acquisition
Longxing Wei
- Part VI: Language Change
- The Linguistic Consequences of Catastrophic Events: An Example from the American Southwest
Guy Bailey, Tom Wikle, Jan Tillery, and Lori Sand
- Social Stratification, Linguistic Constraints and Inherent Variability in Heerlen Dutch: The Use of the Infinitival Complementizers om/voor
Leonie Cornips
- The Spread of Urban AAVE: A Case Study
Patricia Cukor-Avila and Guy Bailey
- Constraints on the Loss of Case Marking in English Wh-Pronouns: Four Hundred Years of Real-time Evidence
Edgar W. Schneider
- A Trend Study of a Trendy Change
Hans Van de Velde
- Substratal Effects on the Evolution of Modals in East LA English
Benji Wald
9/1/96
ISBN (Paperback): 1575860384 (9781575860381)
ISBN (Cloth): 1575860392 (9781575860398)
ISBN (Electronic): 1575867621 (9781575867625)
Subject: Linguistics; Language Variation
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