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Rural Voices

Language, Identity, and Social Change across Place
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In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world. Challenging stereotypical views of rural backwardness and urban progress, the contributors reveal how language is a key mechanism for constructing the meaning of places and the people who identify with them. With research that spans numerous countries and several continents, the chapters in this volume add broadly to knowledge about status and prestige, authenticity and belonging, rural-urban relations, and innovation and change among rural peoples and in rural communities across the globe.
Foreword Gregory Fulkerson and Alexander Thomas Acknowledgments Introduction Elizabeth Seale and Christine Mallinson Part I: Revalorizing the Rural: Negotiating Tradition, Resistance, and Change 1. Multivocal and Critical Performance of Urban Language in Rural Norway Thea Strand 2. "Losing Our Inuttitut": The Intersection of Language Shift and Language Attitudes in Nain, Nunatsiavut Jennifer Thorburn 3. Townie, Bayman, or Newfoundlander? Linguistic Constructions of Urban and Rural in Newfoundland Becky Childs and Gerard Van Herk 4. The Social Mediatization of a Zapotec Transborder Community Elizabeth Falconi Part II: The Realities of Rural Diversity and Identity Construction 5. Rural Voices in Appalachia: The Shifting Sociolinguistic Reality of Rural Life Kirk Hazen 6. Ecologies of Sui Sociolinguistics: A Language Permeated with Rural Social Structure James N. Stanford, Wei Shuqi, and Lu Li 7. Rural Youth Language Practices: Linguistic Creativity and the Globalized African Village Nico Nassenstein Part III: Social Hierarchy: Aspirations and Differentiation 8. Use of Standard Arabic [q] Lexical Borrowings in Syrian Rural Migrant Speech Rania Habib 9. Social Aspiration and Traditional Speech Features among Rural Newfoundland Youth Sarah Kristian 10. "It's Complicated" for Quebec's Anglophones: Language and Stratification in Changing Rural Places Aimee Vieira Conclusion Elizabeth Seale and Christine Mallinson
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