32.1338, Books: Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies: Rickford, Sankoff

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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 17:31:27
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies: Rickford, Sankoff

 


Title: Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole
Studies 
Publication Year: 2021 
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=PB 


Author: John Russell Rickford
Author: Gillian Sankoff

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107450554 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 35.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107450554 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 27.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107450554 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 32.67


Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title.

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.
 



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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