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The [Southern League] encourages Southerners in the exercise of their indefeasible right to be Southern, never mind Northern rep ...

North are taken aside and told that their native language phonology will be an impediment to true success. Job applicants are la ...

fee of $150 an hour, or $210 for an hour and a half session, plus material and travel time, though most clients visit him” (Luon ...

It is absolutely wrong to discriminate on the basis of accent. However, I think this country would be much better off if everybo ...

broadcast news journalists do speak U.S. English with the same range of social, regional and stylistic variation that every othe ...

ABC Evening News, December 15, 1991 Anchor: Don’t ask me why, but you know and I know the rest of the country tends to snicker w ...

Student: Don’t see any reason changing it now. Student: Somebody was going to judge me on the way I spoke then I would judge him ...

Contemporary Issues in Professional Voice and Speech Training. New York: Applause, pp. 61–78. Summarize Knight’s main points and ...

A woman writes to Dear Abby to say that she has moved to the Boston area after living her whole life in Jackson, Mississippi. It ...

5 Similar studies have been conducted in Germany (Dailey-O’Cain 2000); and for Garo, a language spoken in rural India and Bangla ...

Bailey, G. and Tillery, J. (1996) The Persistence of Southern American English. Journal of English Linguistics. 24: 308–321. Cob ...

Defying Paradise 12 Hawai’i^1 He aha ka hala i kapuhia ai ka leo, i ho’okuli mai ai? What was the wrong that silenced the voice? ...

The significance of this – and of all the ethnic distinctions that are so carefully delineated in Hawai’i – might be best unders ...

today, I run into people who treat me poorly because I’m haole. Hawai’ians talk The aboriginal Polynesian language of Hawai’i (‘ ...

One way of thinking about this is that a pidgin must acquire native speakers in order to become a creole (Nichols 2004; Ohama et ...

Figure 12.1 Foreign-born residents of Hawai’i by place of origin Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2009 ...

Figure 12.2 Languages spoken in Hawai’i Source: U.S. Census Bureau (2004) As is the case with all creoles, HC exists in various ...

more common among the poor and working class, which accounts in part for its stigmatization. This is an area where U.S. Census B ...

Finally, Marlow and Giles find evidence of what anyone would guess on the basis of day-to-day experience in the world: even in f ...

rule, institutional racism had functioned to hold back people of color; under Japanese dominance, other Asians and some Anglos s ...