Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation presents a comprehensive,
intermediate level examination of Language Variation and Change, the branch of …

The model of English that should be used in classrooms has long been a subject of debate.
World Englishes, Implications for International Communication and English Language …

What is ethnicity? Is there a'white'way of speaking? Why do people sometimes borrow
features of another ethnic group's language? Why do we sometimes hear an accent that isn't …

In the latter half of the twentieth century, the White working class vernacular in Greater New
Orleans (GNO) has lost ground to extralocal linguistic pressures. Locally salient phonetic …

This monograph takes up recent advances in social network methods in sociology, together
with data on economic segregation, in order to build a quantitative analysis of the class and …

At the outset, the following remarks were intended to be but a brief lead-in to a review of
Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture (Dajko and Walton 2019), a book which, by …

More than 50 years of scholarly attention to the intersection of language and education have
resulted in a rich body of literature on the role of vernacular language varieties in the …

In French on Shifting Ground: Cultural and Coastal Erosion in South Louisiana, Nathalie
Dajko introduces readers to the lower Lafourche Basin, Louisiana, where the land, a …

In southwestern Louisiana, the public sphere is dominated by the image of the Cajuns,
presented as a hardy, likable people who have overcome significant obstacles since their …

In South Louisiana, there is a genre of jokes featuring the bumbling Cajun characters
Boudreaux and Thibodeaux. These jokes are often told with an exaggerated Cajun English …