Language Regard: Methods, Variation and Change

Cambridge University Press, 1/18/2018
EAN 9781107162808, ISBN10: 1107162807

Hardcover, 326 pages, 24.1 x 17 x 2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

Bringing together a team of renowned international scholars, this volume provides a wide-ranging collection of historical and state-of-the-art perspectives on language regard, particularly in the context of language variation and language change, and importantly, highlights the range of new methodologies being used by linguists to explore and evaluate it. The importance of language regard to the inquiry of language variation and change in the field of sociolinguistics is increasingly being recognized, yet misunderstandings about its nature and importance continue to exist. This volume provides scholars and students of sociolinguistics, with the tools and theory to pursue such inquiry. Contributions and research come from Europe, North America, and Asia, and language varieties such as Spanish, Dutch, Danish, and American Sign Language are discussed.

1. Language regard
what, why, how, whither? Dennis R. Preston
Part I. Language Regard
Varied Methods
2. A variationist approach to studies of language regard Patricia Cukor-Avila
3. The emic and the etic in perceptual dialectology Jennifer Cramer
4. Variation in language regard
sociolinguistic receptivity and acceptability of linguistic features Erica J. Benson and Megan L. Risdal
5. Social meanings of the north-south divide in the Netherlands and their linkage to standard Dutch and dialect varieties Leonie Cornips
6. Language subordination on a national scale
examining the linguistic discrimination of Hungarians by Hungarians Miklós Kontra
7. Regional identity and listener perception Valerie Fridland and Tyler Kendall
Part II. Language Regard and Language Variation
8. Language regard and migration
Cuban immigrants in the United States Gabriela Alfaraz
9. Perceptions of Black American Sign Language Robert Bayley, Joseph C. Hill, Carolyn McCaskil and Ceil Lucas
10. Ethnolinguistic assertions regarding people who allegedly 'talk White', or 'talk Black' John Baugh
11. Language regard in liminal Hmong American speech communities James Stanford, Rika Ito and Faith Nibbs
12. Language regard and sociolinguistic competence of non-native speakers Alexei Prikhodkine
Part III. Language Regard and Language Change
13. Cracking the code
wedgies and lexical respectability Jack Chambers
14. Language regard and cultural practice
variation, evaluation, and change in the German regional languages Christoph Purschke
15. Tabula rasa new-dialect formation
on the occasional irrelevance of language regard Peter Trudgill
16. Sharedness and variability in language regard among young Danes
focus on gender Tore Kristiansen.