Variation, versatility and change in sociolinguistics and Creole studies / John Russell Rickford, Stanford University.
| Author/creator | Rickford, John R., 1949- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 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 toward Pidgins and Creoles; 3 "Me Tarzan, You Jane!": Adequacy, Expressiveness and the Creole Speaker; 4 The Haves and Have Nots: Sociolinguistic Surveys and the Assessment of Speaker Competence |
| Contents | 5 Connections between Sociolinguistics and Pidgin-Creole Studies; 6 Implicational Scales; 7 Variation and the Versatility Approach to Language Arts in Schools and Societies; 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; 11 Situation: Stylistic Variation in Sociolinguistic Corpora and Theory |
| Contents | 12 Language and Linguistics on Trial: Hearing Rachel Jeantel (and Other Vernacular Speakers) in the Courtroom and Beyond; 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; Afterword, with a Poem by Rachel Jeantel; Index |
| Abstract | Demonstrates how data, methods and theories from sociolinguistics and creole studies synergize and mutually benefit each subfield. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 31, 2019). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: 9781107086135 |
| Genre/form | Creole dialects, English. |
| ISBN | 9781108651417 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781316091142 |
| ISBN | 1316091147 |
| ISBN | 1108651410 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781107086135 |
| ISBN | 1107086132 |
| ISBN | 1107450551 |
| ISBN | 9781107450554 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |