Appalachian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century

Kirk Hazen is professor of linguistics at West Virginia University, where he is the founding director of the West Virginia Dialect Project and a Benedum Distinguished Scholar in the Humanities. His research, teaching, and linguistic service are all centered on social and linguistic patterns of language variation. His most recent book is An Introduction to Language, and he is coeditor of Research Methods in Sociolinguistics.

Foreword by Donna Christian Preface Part I. Linguistic and Regional Boundaries 1. Just What and Where Are Appalachian Englishes? J. Daniel Hasty 2. Phonological Possibilities in Appalachian Englishes Paul E. Reed 3. Grammar across Appalachia Kirk Hazen Part II. Language in Society 4. Discourse in Appalachia Allison Burkette 5. Identity and Representation in Appalachia: Perceptions in and of Appalachia, Its People, and Its Languages Jennifer Cramer 6. Language, Gender, and Sexuality in Appalachia Christine Mallinson and J. Inscoe 7. Language and Ethnicity in Appalachia Becky Childs Part III. Language in the Wider World 8. Redneck Memes as an Appalachian Reclamation of Vernacular Authority, Language, and Identity Jordan Lovejoy 9. Intersections of Literature and Dialect in Appalachia Isabelle Shepherd and Kirk Hazen 10. Teachers and Teens Making Sense of Identity, Place, and Language in Appalachian Secondary Schools Audra Slocum 11. Appalachian Englishes and the College Campus Stephany Brett Dunstan and Audrey J. Jaeger Afterword by Walt Wolfram Contributors Index

A much-needed, cohesive, and well-written book." -Mary Kohn, Kansas State University