The effects of the race of the interviewer on sociolinguistic fieldwork

Cukor‐Avila, Patricia; Bailey, Guy

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“…It frequently exists by happenstance, and even extant Real time in dialectology and sociolinguistics 363 # Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2003 Figure 11. Longitudinal distribution of two features of AAVE in the speech of two Springville adolescents/teenagers (Bailey, 2001) linguistic evidence often introduces significant issues of comparability. Methodological considerations must always factor into conclusions that involve comparisons with existing evidence.…”

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“…5. The only interviews not conducted by Cukor-Avila and Bailey were a series of interviews done by community fieldworkers to help measure the effects of the race of the fieldworker on data from sociolinguistic fieldwork (see Cukor-Avila and Bailey, 2001).…”

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“…For instance, a growing body of literature suggests that even when interview protocols are held constant, different fieldworkers can have a significant effect on the occurrence of linguistic features Figure 10. Longitudinal data on three AAVE features in the speech of two Springville adults (Bailey, 2001) (Bailey and Tillery, 1999;Cukor-Avila and Bailey, 2001;Rickford and McNair-Knox, 1994). Moreover, recreating the contexts of earlier interviews (e.g., group interviews and site studies) can be an issue since both the populations of communities and their social dynamics change over time.…”

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“…Sociolinguists have classically studied the process of language change by correlating linguistic variation with social factors, such as class (Labov 1964;1994), gender (Ochs 1992;Bucholtz 1999;Cameron and Kulick 2003), age (Sankoff and Blondeau 2007), ethnicity (Cukor-Avila and Bailey 2001), and social network structure (Labov 1972;Milroy and Milroy 1985;Eckert 2000;Paolillo 2001). The progression of linguistic change over time has typically been analyzed using either the apparent time construct (comparing language use by speakers of different ages at a single point in time) or real time data (comparing language use by matched speakers at different points in time).…”

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Language Change as a Social Process: Diffusion Patterns of Lexical Innovations in Twitter

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2013

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One of the major concerns of sociolinguists is to better understand and explain the mechanisms driving language change, in particular the process by which innovative variants appear and subsequently spread throughout a population. Questions regarding the diffusion of new variants over time have been explored from a variety of perspectives (most prominently in socio-and historical linguistics), and a consistent finding is that the diffusion of innovative variants through the linguistic system forms an S-shaped curve with respect to time (Labov 2001).Similar observations are reported from the field of innovation diffusion research, an interdisciplinary area of the social sciences concerned with how, why, and at what rate innovative ideas and technologies spread through social systems. Studies from innovation diffusion research have shown that the rate of diffusion of (non-linguistic) innovations-including medical, agricultural, political, and technological examples-also forms an S-shaped curve with respect to time (Rogers 1995).The similarities between findings from language change research and innovation diffusion research suggest that language change may be explained by the same mechanisms that govern the social diffusion of non-linguistic innovations. In this paper I apply the theoretical framework of innovation diffusion research to an instance of language change. By approaching the diffusion of linguistic innovations as a social process, I hope to gain insights into the mechanisms of language change from a new perspective.Section 1 gives a background of the S-curve model of diffusion from both the 152 39

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“…The relationship between participants in a corpus is also an important dimension to be recorded. This is because a single individual will express him or herself quite differently depending on the interlocutor(s) (Douglas‐Cowie ; Cukor‐Avila and Bailey ; Watt et al ; Watt et al ). A record of the participants is even more important, (4).…”

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What Kind of Data is it? Situating Sociolinguistic Corpora in Context

Tagliamonte

2014

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In this paper, I discuss how sociolinguistic corpora can be compiled so as to document and maximize access to the context of its collection. This is no doubt a murky issue for the coding and categorization enterprise, but it is as critical as demographic information if we are going to be able to compare data sets from different communities, eras, or across research projects. However, how far does the researcher go in documenting this type of information? My goal will be to outline what I have found to be 'best practice' in my own research while at the same time highlighting issues and problems I have encountered along the way. I build on the foundations of earlier corpus-building projects and on data arising from my own fieldwork conducted in the UK and Canada between 1995-2011. How can sociolinguistic corpora be compiled so as to document and maximize access to the context of its collection? This is no doubt a murky issue for the coding and categorization enterprise because it is so difficult to decide which information to code and how. Judicious decisions are critical if we are going to be able to compare data sets from different communities, eras, or across research projects. (for example, sites with different nationalities (e.g. Tagliamonte 2013), founders (Poplack and Tagliamonte 1991), different points in time (centuries, eras, and decades) or even across disparate research projects (focus on language contact vs. language change). However, how far does the researcher go in documenting this type of information? My goal in this paper will be to outline what I have found to be 'best practice' in my own research while at the same time highlighting issues and problems I have encountered along the way. I build on the foundations of earlier corpus-building projects (Sankoff and Cedergren, 1971;Sankoff and Sankoff 1973;Poplack 1989;Thibault and Vincent 1990) and on data arising from my own fieldwork conducted in the UK and Canada between 1995and 2011 (Tagliamonte 1996-1998, 1999-2001, 2001-2003, 2003-2006, 2007-2013.The original fieldwork situation is a critical component of any research because it determines the nature of the linguistic data. How comparable are data samples? This can only be known if substantial information about the context of data collection has been recorded and is retrievable for later work. Indeed, this fact highlights the extreme importance of the original research goals and practice. At the outset of data collection, the nature of the discourse to be obtained must somehow be planned and then controlled (to the best of the researcher's ability). First, it is necessary to decide on the geographic boundaries, whether suburb, neighborhood, or block. For example, in the Ottawa-Hull French project, Poplack (1989) controlled for border differences, contrasting the province of Ontario versus Quebec, but also varying proportions of French versus English in the same province. This permitted her to disentangle political boundaries and language contact. Further, if obtaining vernacular data ...

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The effects of the race of the interviewer on sociolinguistic fieldwork

Cited by 36 publications

References 9 publications

Approaches to Real Time in Dialectology and Sociolinguistics

Approaches to Real Time in Dialectology and Sociolinguistics

Language Change as a Social Process: Diffusion Patterns of Lexical Innovations in Twitter

What Kind of Data is it? Situating Sociolinguistic Corpora in Context

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