Emerging Hispanicized English in the Nuevo New South: Language Variation in a Triethnic Community

"This volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary language shift and identity in a language community in the mid-Atlantic South to offer a unique window into ethnic dialect formation and sociolinguistic processes underpinning dialect acquisition. Drawing on data collected from over...

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Main Author: Callahan, Erin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Taylor and Francis 2018
Edition:First edition
Series:Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
Routledge studies in sociolinguistics
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"This volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary language shift and identity in a language community in the mid-Atlantic South to offer a unique window into ethnic dialect formation and sociolinguistic processes underpinning dialect acquisition. Drawing on data collected from over 100 interviews of members North Carolina Hispanicized English speakers in Durham, North Carolina, the book employs a quantitative approach and uses statistical software in analyzing the data collected to focus on the sociolinguistic variable of past tense unmarking to explore sociolinguistic processes at work in English language learner variation. The focus on a specific variable allows for the opportunity to explore specific processes in more detail, including the ways in which speakers accommodate regional and ethnic varieties of their peers and the internal and environmental factors guiding dialect acquisition. Illuminating new facets to the processes of language learning, language contact, and ethnolect emergence, this volume is key reading for students and researchers in second language acquisition and variationist sociolinguistics."--Provided by publisher
Physical Description:1 online resource text file, PDF
ISBN:9781315159515
1315159511

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