Research Collaborations
Two Case Studies of Language Ideology and Practice in the U.S. South: Spanish in Northern Mississippi and Eastern North Carolina
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Description
This year we have made some modest but exciting gains in our understanding of Spanish-speaking populations in the U.S. South. Drawing on a corpus of more than 60 participants which includes first- and second-generation Spanish speakers in Northern Mississippi and eastern North Carolina, we are working to identify the most salient comparisons and contrasts between these Southern variants of Spanish and those of larger and more well-established population centers that have received more attention to date in the literature. In this way, our study will expand and complexify understandings of the linguistic, social, and cultural dimensions of the U.S. Spanish macro-dialect. Our analysis of migration patterns, language ideologies, and linguistic features of Spanish speakers in Mississippi and North Carolina also provides a laboratory of language variation and change in real time for scholars working on issues of bilingualism, education, and anthropology (to name a few) in the U.S. South.
Publication Date
2021
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Disciplines
Linguistics | Migration Studies | Place and Environment | Race and Ethnicity | Regional Sociology
Recommended Citation
Fafulas, Stephen and Van Hoose, Matthew J., "Two Case Studies of Language Ideology and Practice in the U.S. South: Spanish in Northern Mississippi and Eastern North Carolina" (2021). Research Collaborations. 2.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/secspanish_collaborations/2
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