Nicholas Kontovas
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nicholas Kontovas plays a role.
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2023 “You know she didn’t have no country”: Codeswitching and performing sass on RuPaul’s Drag Race Journal of Language and Sexuality 12:1, pp. 98–134 | Article
This study focuses on switches into and out of African American English among contestants of the television series RuPaul’s Drag Race. Following Barrett (1995), I note that Black contestants who are comfortable in White Middle-Class American English tend to use it as their primary dialect,… read more