Secondary education as a group marker in St. Louis, Missouri

Duncan, Daniel

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“…Before proceeding with this discussion, I should remark upon the residence effects in particular. Recall that the residence factor nearly overlaps with the kind of high school that speakers attended (Duncan 2020). While in isolation the linguistic results could potentially be interpreted as an education type effect, this questionnaire result seems less attributable to education type.…”

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Urban/suburban contact as stylized social practice

Duncan

2021

Urban Matters

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This study highlights the importance of urban/suburban contact to linguistic variation. I explore two case studies of intra-metropolitan contact and their effect on variation in the English of Greater St. Louis, USA. Data comes from 14 white women born 1971-1991 from outer-ring suburbs in St. Charles County who differ in their length of commute, and twelve white women born 1935-1952 from the City of St. Louis who differ in whether they moved to suburbs in adulthood. The results suggest that in contact situations, the city and suburb accommodate to one another: commuting towards the city yields more ʻcity-likeʼ speech, while moving away from the city yields more ʻsuburb-likeʼ speech. However, identity mediates these contact situations through stylized social practice.

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Urban/suburban contact as stylized social practice

Duncan

2021

Urban Matters

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“…Because social network structure, school demographics, and neighborhood demographics are all highly correlated with each other within the United States, these studies capture similar patterns while raising questions about which metric is most critical for examining language variation (Duncan, 2020 ; Kohn, 2018 ). Further, few linguists have considered the intersection of age, segregation, and language use.…”

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Sources of variation in the speech of African Americans: Perspectives from sociophonetics

Farrington

King

Kohn

2021

WIRES Cognitive Science

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African American Language (AAL) is one of the most researched varieties of American English, yet key aspects of its development and spread remain under‐theorized. For example, regional and social variation in the speech of African Americans was initially understudied in AAL as scholars sought to demonstrate the overall systematicity of the variety, often at the expense of examining variation across and within communities. More recently, scholars have begun to address this gap by examining different sources of variation in AAL phonology. For instance, the African American Vowel System (AAVS), also called the African American Vowel Shift, describes a pattern identified within AAL, including the raising of the front lax vowels and the nonfronting of the high‐ and mid‐back vowels. Aspects of the AAVS have been found in geographically widespread varieties of AAL, suggesting that shared patterns of population movement resulting from the Great Migration and subsequent social experiences may have led to the development of this system. Other more regionally limited sound patterns suggest the role of more localized processes of variation and change. We focus on three sources of variation that have contributed to the spread and realizations of the sound system in modern AAL: migration, segregation, and place and identity. Evidence from sociophonetic analyses across these three factors provides a foundation to more thoroughly document the ways in which AAL varieties developed, spread, and vary, while allowing for a more nuanced assessment of racialization and its implications for individual differences. This article is categorized under: Linguistics > Linguistic Theory Psychology > Language

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“…Respect and standing are indicators of esteem that can be traded for tangible rewards (Coate and Howson, 2016). Prestige constructs social categories, and offers markers of status and class affinity (Duncan, 2021;Fuh, 2012).…”

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The prestige economy of elite education: a Baudrillardian analysis of an aspirational English school

Holligan

Shah

2023

Lond. Rev. Educ.

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Academic entrepreneurial behaviours are increasingly a research field paralleling processes of capitalist commodification. We mobilise Baudrillard’s concepts to probe a school’s strategic communication methods symbolising class neoliberalism, which aspirational parents may experience as a desired habitus of ‘distinction’. We suggest their knowledge of class and education, once imported into the interpretation of this school’s web presence, will coalesce with its simulacra of elite education. Our account encourages comparisons with selective school websites and utilises the qualitative data on the public site of this school, a methodological approach that has been fruitfully utilised by scholars uncovering the ideological representations created by providers who market UK higher education. The intervention into the marketplace of the selective fee-paying English education of Independent Grammar School: Durham (IGSD) through such a penumbra of symbolic meaning forms part of its pursuit of a competitive edge. International studies of schools chasing prestige and consumer desire confirm that the policies and practices described have become widespread, as shown in the oeuvre of Stephen Ball, whose writings inform the approach of this article. The marketing of the ‘brand’ identified through our theoretically driven analysis may encourage consumers to opt out of the state sector. Neoliberal-class markers of prestige contribute to the erosion of welfare-oriented school ideals in England, and in other nations.

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Secondary education as a group marker in St. Louis, Missouri

Cited by 3 publications

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Urban/suburban contact as stylized social practice

Urban/suburban contact as stylized social practice

Sources of variation in the speech of African Americans: Perspectives from sociophonetics

The prestige economy of elite education: a Baudrillardian analysis of an aspirational English school

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