Publications

Publication details [#61681]

Stanford, James N., Kalina Newmark and Nacole Walker. 2016. ‘The rez accent knows no borders’: Native American ethnic identity expressed through English prosody. Language in Society 45 (5) : 633–664.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

borrowing | ethnicity | identity negotiation | language spread | prosody

Language as a subject

English, American | English, Native American

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Young Native Americans in three expressly distinct locations (Dakota Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, Canadian Northwest Territories, and varied tribes at Dartmouth College) are shown to (re)produce a common ethnic identity over big distances, by heteroglossically performing adopted English prosodic features.