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Do You Speak American?
- To use the terms in the latest map, "The Linguistic Atlas of North America," we travel through Eastern New England to New York, then to Philadelphia, then west into the Midland dialect, then to the Northern, the Southern, and on to the West.†
Chpt Intr.
- It is also widely believed that if they just made a serious effort black children could easily learn standard American, to pull themselves up by their linguistic bootstraps.†
Chpt Intr.
- Language uneasiness is rife today, as generations of Americans leave high school much freer socially but without the linguistic confidence of earlier generations, who were better grounded in basic grammar.†
Chpt 1
- He believes that coming to a language late can be an advantage, because one brings better credentials, linguistic, cultural, and emotional.†
Chpt 1 *
- It was first proposed by Jonathan Swift, on the model of the French Academy, to dictate linguistic standards.†
Chpt 1
- He said there was no hard evidence for a general linguistic decline, adding, "If we are bent on finding a decline in standards, the place to look is not in the language itself but in the way it is talked about."†
Chpt 1
- Sheidlower thinks that John Simon and others who believe that there is a serious decline in linguistic standards are "wrong and misguided," because "language change happens and there's nothing you can do about it."†
Chpt 1
- He maintains that people like John Simon are actually complaining that linguists and dictionary writers are no longer focused exclusively on the language of top people: "When linguistic conservatives look at the way things were in the old days and say, 'Well, everything used to be very proper, and now we have all these bad words and people are being careless and so forth,' in fact people always used to be that way," Sheidlower says.†
Chpt 1
- Advertisers were as quick as politicians to meet average Americans on a comfortable linguistic level.†
Chpt 1
- Labov says that these leaders of linguistic change have had a history of nonconformity and that their language itself was a display of nonconformity.†
Chpt 2
- "Fashion leaders are concentrated among young women of high gregariousness," Labov says, calling the linguistic changes he has studied "the audible equivalent of the visual effects of fashion."†
Chpt 2
- Females among the Burnouts were the principal leaders of linguistic change, measured by how completely they adopted the vowel changes in the Northern Cities Shift.†
Chpt 2
- That movement began a cultural and linguistic migration that continues to this day, as we shall see, gathering power and belated prestige in both North and South.†
Chpt 3
- Linguist Walt Wolfram sees a lessening of the colonial linguistic mentality.†
Chpt 3
- By the end of the 1930s, Bonfiglio says, "New York speech had become dissonant with the notions of heartland American linguistic and ethnic purity."†
Chpt 3
- Their works and those of dozens of poets, nonfiction writers, playwrights, essayists, and critics carry out to the English-speaking world a linguistic standard of the highest order.†
Chpt 3
- Carefully wrought American English is part of our national linguistic life, too.†
Chpt 3
- Both the older maps of the Dictionary of American Regional English, based largely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century word use, and the very new Atlas of North American English, created from current pronunciations, present the Ohio River as a linguistic frontier.†
Chpt 4
- Working from census figures as well as linguistic data, Fought calculates that the Inland Southern dialect overtook Inland Northern in the past twenty years.†
Chpt 4
- The linguistic imprint on American English of German and its Jewish relative, Yiddish, is on an altogether different scale.†
Chpt 5
- Ironically, given today's linguistic anxieties, in the same editorial the Times suggested that, if a second language was needed at all, Spanish would be more useful for business.†
Chpt 5
- Although Congress cut off most immigration in 1924, this wave of linguistic discrimination, or paranoia, passed.†
Chpt 5
- Wall sees tolerance for Spanish as a threat to the linguistic unity of America, to our common civic language, which could lead to a linguistic Balkanization of the United States.†
Chpt 5
- Wall sees tolerance for Spanish as a threat to the linguistic unity of America, to our common civic language, which could lead to a linguistic Balkanization of the United States.†
Chpt 5
- Reconquest, taken literally in the linguistic sense, would mean the replacement of English by Spanish—the whole enchilada, so to speak.†
Chpt 5
- Carmen vigorously refutes the claim by Vicente Fox and Carlos Fuentes that Latinos are achieving a linguistic reconquest of America.†
Chpt 5
- Rarely does linguistic research in any one community extend over such a long period of time, and to achieve this, she said, it was necessary to win the trust of the locals: "When I first started out with this project, I would basically hang out there most of the day and interact with people who came in and talk with them, not necessarily record right at first, until I got to know people.†
Chpt 6
- Linguist John Baugh wrote that Labov's research, "The Logic of Non-standard English," "was the single most important article ever written that debunked the pervasive linguistic fallacies associated with cognitive-deficit hypotheses"—that is, the fallacy that speakers of Black English were somehow mentally backward.†
Chpt 6
- There is still a dispute, too specialized for nonlinguists like us, over whether the Creole theory of black linguistic development means there is a deeply embedded structure in black language or whether, in Cukor-Avila's words, "factors such as education, age, and social class were also significant in determining linguistic choices.†
Chpt 6
- There is still a dispute, too specialized for nonlinguists like us, over whether the Creole theory of black linguistic development means there is a deeply embedded structure in black language or whether, in Cukor-Avila's words, "factors such as education, age, and social class were also significant in determining linguistic choices.†
Chpt 6
- For years Stanford University linguist John Baugh has been studying what he calls "linguistic profiling," as real in black lives as the "racial profiling" whereby skin color alone makes police suspect criminality.†
Chpt 6
- He confirmed that the school district was really insensitive to the linguistic background of the vast majority of African American students within the school district.†
Chpt 6
- She said, "Our task is to help move them towards mastery of the language at school, in its oral and written form, but to do that in a way where they are not devalued, or where they feel denigrated in any way by virtue of their cultural and linguistic differences."†
Chpt 6
- Number two, what linguistic feature is in AAL?†
Chpt 6
- John Baugh says, "For far too long the quest for racial equity has pushed hot buttons like affirmative action, while ignoring the importance of corresponding linguistic buttons altogether; that cycle must be broken if race relations in this country are ever to improve."†
Chpt 6
- Penelope Eckert believes that "linguistic style is inseparable from clothing style, hairstyle and lifestyle," and the crux of this stylistic development comes from young people, but especially girls interacting with their peers.†
Chpt 7
- Along with William Labov in Philadelphia, she says, "Girls are the movers and shakers in linguistic change.†
Chpt 7
- Levy detects one linguistic role for like, similar to you know, "to build conversational solidarity and negotiate common ground."†
Chpt 7
- He said that girls used it more often than boys, and he found that "compatible with a body of linguistic evidence that in Western cultures women employ a co-operative conversational style more than men."†
Chpt 7
- But even in a society as youth-obsessed as California's, there are other powerful engines of social change, which lead in turn to further linguistic evolution.†
Chpt 7
- Looking at the two previous words, the system then decides which word sequence would best match the spoken sounds it has been given and the linguistic model constructed from the database.†
Chpt 8
- So is the matter we discussed with Cliff Nass, the stereotypes that are deeply lodged in the linguistic psyche of America.†
Chpt 8
- In the future there will be competing linguistic trends, John Baugh said as he discussed the choices that shaped his own life: "For ordinary people, not professionals, there will be a tendency to maintain their regional or ethnic identities.†
Chpt 8
- That may even produce more tolerance and appreciation of the linguistic diversity of this country, and less negative stereotyping of some dialects (such as New York or Southern) as "bad English."†
Chpt 8
- Linguist Dennis Baron says that "linguistic discrimination remains publicly acceptable in the United States, while other forms of discrimination do not."†
Chpt 8
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