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Publication details [#30525]

Clarke, Sandra and Ruth King. 2002. Contesting meaning: Newfie and the politics of ethnic labelling. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6 (4) : 537–556.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
ISBN
1360-6441

Annotation

This paper deals with the ideological debate surrounding the ethnic label Newfie for 'Newfoundlander', tracing the history of the term and investigating current attitudes as expressed in national and provincial media talk and in self-report data.