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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| General issues in ethnicity and language | |
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| What is ethnicity? | |
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| Areas of agreement about ethnicity | |
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| Possible definitions of ethnicity | |
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| Possible definitions of race | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Language and the construction of ethnic identity | |
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| What linguistic resources do individuals have in constructing identity? | |
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| Indexing multiple identities | |
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| Ethnic pride or assimilation? | |
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| How is an individual's ethnicity co-constructed by the community? | |
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| Language and the construction of ethnic identity: three individual cases | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Linguistic features and ethnicity in specific groups | |
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| African-American groups | |
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| What is AAVE? | |
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| AAVE grammar | |
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| AAVE phonology | |
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| Variation in the use of non-standard features in AAVE | |
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| Attitudes towards AAVE | |
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| Regional variation in AAVE: is AAVE converging toward a supraregional norm? | |
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| Another possibility: a blend of supraregional and regional norms | |
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| Standard AAE and the language of middle-class African-Americans | |
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| AAVE in the media | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Latino groups | |
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| The complexities of identity in Latino communities | |
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| Repertoires: multiple codes for multiple identities | |
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| Attitudes, choices, and the construction of identity | |
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| The structure of dialects in latino communities | |
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| Chicano English phonology | |
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| Chicano English grammar | |
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| The structure of other Latino English dialects | |
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| Latino dialects of Spanish | |
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| The language gap: differences among generations | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Linguistic variation in other multiethnic settings | |
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| Cajuns and Creoles in Louisiana | |
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| South African ethnic groups | |
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| Maoris in New Zealand | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Are white people ethnic? Whiteness, dominance, and ethnicity | |
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| The social correlates of being white | |
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| The linguistic correlates of being white | |
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| The consequences of "sounding white" | |
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| Humor and the portrayal of "whiteness" | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Dialect contact, ethnicity, and language change | |
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| Dialect contact and ethnic boundaries | |
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| Influences of minority ethnic dialects on the dominant dialect | |
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| Contact among ethnic minority dialects | |
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| Ethnic minority group speakers and sound change | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| The role of language use in ethnicity | |
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| Discourse features, pragmatics, and ethnicity | |
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| Indirectness | |
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| Turn-taking, silence, and backchanneling | |
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| Joking | |
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| Complimenting | |
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| Acquisition of language norms | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Interethnic communication and language prejudice | |
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| Tennis, anyone? | |
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| Interethnic communication | |
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| Differences in language use norms in public settings | |
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| Language varieties and interactional styles in the classroom | |
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| Teaching a standard variety to speakers of vernacular varieties | |
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| Accent hallucination | |
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| Matched guise studies and linguistic profiling | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Crossing: may I borrow your ethnicity? | |
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| Classic studies of crossing in the UK | |
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| Who crosses? | |
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| Why does a speaker cross? | |
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| How does an individual get access to a linguistic code other than his or her own? | |
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| How extensive is crossing, linguistically? What linguistic areas are individuals who cross most likely to use? | |
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| Does crossing lead to less racism? | |
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| Crossing versus passing | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary of terms | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |