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Tables of Contents for Identity and Ethnicity in the Rural South
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures
viii
 
List of Tables
ix
 
Acknowledgments
xi
 
Goals, Methodology, and Sociolinguistic Variation
Goals of the Study
1
1
A Variationist Perspective
2
2
The Relation between AAVE and Other Vernacular Varieties
4
3
Methodology
7
11
Sampling, Social Categories, and Speakers
7
3
Vernacularity, Interviews, and Styles
10
5
Recording
15
1
Quantification
16
2
Organization
18
3
Sociohistorical Context and Ethnic Boundaries
Introduction
21
1
Demographic Background
22
3
Haliwa-Saponi Tribe
25
3
Ethnic Group Identity
28
5
Group Status
33
4
Group Interaction
37
10
Cultural Aspects of Warren County
47
4
Conclusion
51
5
Past-Tense be
Introduction
56
1
History of Past-Tense be
56
2
Previous Studies of Past-Tense be
58
3
The Variable of Past-Tense be
61
1
Acoustic Analysis
62
5
Synchronic Analysis
67
13
The Positive Paradigm
67
5
The Negative Paradigm
72
7
Correlation with Sex
79
1
Wont as a Separate Variant
80
6
Wont as a Separate Sociolinguistic Variant
81
1
Wont as a Separate Linguistic Variant
81
5
Diachronic Analysis
86
6
The African American Community
87
2
The European American Community
89
1
The Native American Community
90
2
Conclusion
92
4
Copula Absence
Introduction
96
1
History of Present Tense be
96
2
Previous Studies of Copula Absence
98
4
Defining the Variable
102
2
Synchronic Analysis
104
8
Diachronic Analysis
112
2
Warren County AAVE and the Creole Continuum
114
7
Conclusion
121
2
Speaker Identity and Sociolinguistic Variation
Introduction
123
4
Cultural Identity
127
8
Individual Speakers and the Importance of Their Identity
135
8
African American Individuals
136
3
Native American Individuals
139
2
European American Individuals
141
2
Effects of Cultural Identity in the Interaction between Sex, Age, and the Sociolinguistic Variables
143
5
Cultural Identity and Sex
143
2
Cultural Identity and Age
145
3
Conclusion
148
5
Variation in Sociolinguistic Patterns
Profiles
153
5
The African American Community
155
1
The European American Community
156
1
The Native American Community
157
1
Ethnic Alignment and Levels of Stigmatized Variants
158
3
Divergence
161
3
Past
161
1
Present
162
1
Future
163
1
Suggestions for Future Research
164
2
Implications for Language Variation and Change
166
1
The Dynamic State of Ethnolinguistic Relations
166
5
References
171