Publications

Publication details [#56330]

Smalls, Krystal A. 2012. ‘We had lighter tongues’: Making and mediating Gullah/Geechee personhood in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Language & Communication 32 (2) : 147–159.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

identity negotiation | institutional context | language maintenance | language revival | speech community

Language as a subject

Gullah

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This ethnography examines the ideological transitions, undergone over the past 80 years by the historic Avery and Penn (Research) Centers, which have helped to determine selfhood and belonging conceptualizations in local Gullah communities in the South Carolina Lowcountry.