Publications

Publication details [#26515]

Wolfram, Walt and Christine Mallinson. 2002. Dialect accomodation in a bi-ethnic mountain enclave community. More evidence on the development of African American English. Language in Society 31 (5) : 743–777.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect2 | identity negotiation | language change | language contact

Language as a subject

English, African American | English, European American

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study investigates the historically isolated African American enclave community of Bottom Beech (North Carolina), to help reconstruct and understand the structure and historical development of earlier African American English, such as the role of localized dialect accomodation and ethnolinguistic distinctiveness.