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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 21:51:56
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies: Rickford

 


Title: Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole
Studies 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/variation-versatility-and-change-sociolinguistics-and-creole-studies?format=HB 


Author: John Russell Rickford

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107086135 Pages: 386 Price: U.S. $ 130
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107086135 Pages: 386 Price: U.K. £ 95


Abstract:

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.

Includes several of John Russell Rickford's key works in one place, including
two brand new, specially-written chapters 

Addresses key theoretical concepts in sociolinguistics with data from creole
communities and insights from recent data from African America and the
Caribbean 

Provides an invaluable resource for researchers who wish to assess the
linguistic and sociolinguistic competence of speakers in their speech
communities or communities of practice more deeply than most current methods
provide for


Foreword Gillian Sankoff
Acknowledgements
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 towards pidgins and creoles with Elizabeth Closs
Traugott
3. 'Me Tarzan, you Jane!': cognition, expression and the creole speaker
4. The haves and have nots: sociolinguistic surveys and the assessment of
speaker competence
5. Connections between sociolinguistics and pidgin-creole studies
6. Implicational scales
7. Variation and the versatility approach to language arts in schools and
societies with Angela E. Rickford
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 with Robin Melnick
11. Situation: stylistic variation in sociolinguistic corpora and theory
12. Language and linguistic on trial: hearing Rachel Jeantel (and other
vernacular speakers) in the courtroom and beyond with Sharese King
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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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