Publications

Publication details [#13312]

Christian, Donna. 2000. Reflections of Language Heritage: Choice and Chance in Vernacular English Dialects. In Peyton, Joy Kreeft, Peg Griffin, Walt Wolfram and Ralph W. Fasold. Language in Action. New Studies of Language in Society. Essays in Honor of Roger W. Shuy. Hampton Press. pp. 230–246.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

language choice | language use | language variety | vernacular

Language as a subject

English, Pueblo Indian | English, Vietnamese

Annotation

The author explains how stable and more or less recognizable varieties of English go back to earlier patterns of linguistic choice-making, themselves informed both by community-centered values and by personal dispositions.