Where our Fathers are from: Place and Conflict in Sociolinguistic Borrowing

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dc.contributor.authorSneller, Betsy
dc.date2023-05-17T23:17:59.000
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-23T00:42:59Z
dc.date.available2020-01-15T00:00:00Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-15
dc.date.submitted2020-01-15T14:45:29-08:00
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, I set sociolinguistic meaning and phonological borrowing within the specific local geography of speakers in a community. The social practices of these speakers collide with ideology in a particular physical space: a single neighborhood park that serves as a neighborhood boundary between Black and white residents in a Philadelphia neighborhood, which in turn emerges in the white speakers’ ideologies as a place that is both maximally local and is the site of contact with the maximally extralocal. I argue that the interleaving of social meanings within the park and the regular interracial conflict within it result in the indexical de-linking of (TH)-fronting from African American English (AAE) and the indexical strengthening of this feature with toughness, enabling white Philadelphia English speakers to adopt this (TH)-fronting as an index of tough via conflict with their AAE speaking neighbors.
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dc.legacy.articleid2073
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dc.source.issue14
dc.source.journalUniversity of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
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dc.titleWhere our Fathers are from: Place and Conflict in Sociolinguistic Borrowing
dc.title.alternativePlace_and_Conflict_in_Sociolinguistic_Borrowing
dc.typeWorking Paper
digcom.contributor.authorSneller, Betsy
digcom.date.embargo2020-01-15T00:00:00-08:00
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