Entering the Community: Fieldwork

Feagin, Crawford

doi:10.1002/9780470756591.ch1

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“…Coupland () notes that in sociolinguistic practice, ‘community’ is treated as a self‐evident, preexisting structure from which the researcher selects ‘speakers’, whose language will be observed (cf. Feagin ). He argues (2003:101) that a ‘socially thin model has dominated variationist sociolinguistics,’ in which the speech community is ‘treated as any site of sociolinguistic engagement where some defined but weakly theorized social group has been identified.’ This, he refers to as community‐as‐demography , the weakest interpretation of community.…”

Section: Introduction: Ethnic and Racial Categorization Of African Ammentioning

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African American and Black as Demographic Codes

Blake

2014

Language and Linguist. Compass

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This article addresses the semantics of ethnicity/race and ethnic/racial categorization in the United States and its role in sociolinguistic inquiry. The focus is on scholars' ethnic/racial coding of African American, which is used interchangeably with the label Black. While there has been a growing body of research that shows African American English (AAE) varies both regionally and across social lines (e.g., age, gender, class), slow to follow is work addressing variation within the ethnic/racial category African American/Black in and of itself. This paper argues the field of sociolinguistics and related fields are at a crossroads in terms of how we categorize people within ethnically diverse African American/Black communities in the United States and offers methodological solutions.

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Section: Introduction: Ethnic and Racial Categorization Of African Ammentioning

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African American and Black as Demographic Codes

Blake

2014

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“…with tertiary education from West Bohemia. We strove for a minimum of five different speakers per combination [9], which reduces the risk of a category being excessively tied to a single idiolect and maintains variability. The map shows all ten dialect regions.…”

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“…9 This layer includes some specific symbols for dialectal vowels or consonants in order to capture the actual pronunciation, e.g. vǝrch, býł, won, řezňičił.…”

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“…[9], [12], [13]. It is closely connected to the type of data (monologues, dialogues), and especially transcription rules, e.g.…”

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“…sg. variants, neděli and nedělu), which were not 9 We mostly follow the Rules for the Scientific Transcription of Dialectological Records of Czech and Slovak [8], but also take some inspiration from Czech Dialectal Texts [19] and the Addenda to the Czech Linguistic Atlas [5]. 10 for more information about lemmatization and tagging of the ORAL corpora see [18].…”

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