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Publication details [#57755]

Burkette, Allison. 2013. Constructing the (m)other: A-prefixing, stance, and the lessons of motherhood. Language in Society 42 (3) : 239–258.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

identity negotiation | interview | language variation | narrative | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English, Appalachian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper deals with regional grammatical variables' application to define speaker stances toward mothering, concentrating on a mother's and her daughter's autonomous memories of a unique event and how their narratives dialogically frame the (m)other.