Publications

Publication details [#57759]

Evans Wagner, Suzanne. 2013. “We act like girls and we don't act like men”: Ethnicity and local language change in a Philadelphia high school. Language in Society 42 (4) : 361–383.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | identity negotiation | immigrant | sound change | speech community

Language as a subject

English, American

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper explores how in a high school in the Philadelphian speech community, featuring local language (/sound) change, ethnicity of speakers of Irish and Italian descent is linguistically indexed, especially in girls from Irish descent.