@article{dodsworth_kohn_2021, title={6. Supraregional Changes Are Uncorrelated}, volume={106}, DOI={10.1215/00031283-9551306}, abstractNote={Research Article| December 01 2021 6. Supraregional Changes Are Uncorrelated: A Community Comparison Robin Dodsworth; Robin Dodsworth robin dodsworth is professor of English in the linguistics program at North Carolina State University. Her research investigates sociolinguistic variation, especially as it relates to socioeconomic and social network characteristics. Her 2020 book, coauthored with Richard Benton, is entitled Language Variation and Change in Social Networks: A Bipartite Approach. Email: robin_dodsworth@ncsu.edu. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Mary Kohn Mary Kohn mary kohn is an associate professor in English and director of the Chapman Center for Rural Studies at Kansas State University. Her work examines regional and social variation in language with a focus on the Great Plains. She also examines language change across the lifespan through the Frank Porter Graham Project, resulting in books published by Cambridge University Press and Duke University Press. Email: kohn@ksu.edu. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (2021) 106 (1): 125–146. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-9551306 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robin Dodsworth, Mary Kohn; 6. Supraregional Changes Are Uncorrelated: A Community Comparison. Publication of the American Dialect Society 1 December 2021; 106 (1): 125–146. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-9551306 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Dialect SocietyThe Publication of the American Dialect Society Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2021 American Dialect Society2021 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.}, number={1}, journal={The Publication of the American Dialect Society}, publisher={Duke University Press}, author={Dodsworth, Robin and Kohn, Mary}, year={2021}, pages={125–146} } @article{forrest_mcdonald_dodsworth_2021, title={Linguistic Employment Niches: Southern Dialect across Industries}, volume={7}, ISSN={2378-0231 2378-0231}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2378023121999161}, DOI={10.1177/2378023121999161}, abstractNote={ The authors examine how linguistic niches may develop in certain industries. Using acoustic measurement techniques, the authors examine the extent to which workers in different industries display dialect features associated with the American South. The data are drawn from 190 semistructured sociolinguistic interviews from 2008 to 2017. Six linguistic variables were constructed to measure dialect features associated with southern American English. The results show that workers who are employed in the technology industry display significantly fewer southern dialect features than workers in interactive service work, law, and government. The general movement away from southern American English over time was also more prominent among technology workers. These results suggest that newer and more professional industries display less traditional patterns of southern speech. While the results do not support causal claims, they imply that individuals tend to work in industries that match their linguistic and cultural backgrounds. }, journal={Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Forrest, Jon and McDonald, Steve and Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2021}, month={Jan}, pages={237802312199916} } @article{sharma_dodsworth_2020, title={Language Variation and Social Networks}, volume={6}, ISSN={["2333-9691"]}, DOI={10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011619-030524}, abstractNote={ The close relationship between language variation and the nature of social ties among people has been the focus of long-standing commentary in linguistics. A central puzzle in this relationship is the seeming contradiction between two bodies of evidence: automatic, mechanistic diffusion of linguistic forms through social networks and ideologically mediated choice in uptake of forms. Nearly a century of research has revealed that certain types of network structure facilitate the diffusion of linguistic innovation, but these network structures are always anchored in temporally specific and ideologically mediated cultural norms—for instance, norms of gender, class, and ethnicity. Furthermore, not all linguistic variables diffuse in the same way through these structures; social indexicality has a mediating effect. We review prevailing methodologies, theories, and conclusions of this body of work and look ahead to emerging technological advances and more integrated theoretical approaches. }, journal={ANNUAL REVIEW OF LINGUISTICS, VOL 6}, author={Sharma, Devyani and Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2020}, pages={341–361} } @article{dodsworth_forrest_kohn_2020, title={Network characteristics of American Raising}, volume={26}, url={https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol26/iss2/9/}, number={2}, journal={University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics}, author={Dodsworth, Robin and Forrest, Jon and Kohn, Mary}, year={2020}, pages={9} } @article{dodsworth_2019, title={Bipartite network structures and individual differences in sound change}, volume={4}, ISSN={["2397-1835"]}, DOI={10.5334/gjgl.647}, abstractNote={This paper assesses the influence of social network structure, and the role of the individual, in shaping the loss of the regional vowel system in the Southern U.S. city of Raleigh, North Carolina. The entire front vowel system, including monophthongal /aɪ/ as in ride, is shifting toward the national standard. Previous network studies in sociolinguistics have focused on individual-level network characteristics, such as integration in dense local networks or contact with speakers from different neighborhoods or ethnic groups. By contrast, the Raleigh study focuses on individuals’ positions in the community network structure as represented by a bipartite network of people and the schools they attended. Bipartite networks indicate social proximity between people via their shared participation in an event or organization.With a 189-speaker sample of Raleigh natives, the network measure of structural equivalence offers a view of Raleigh’s community network structure and of the individual’s role in advancing the shift away from the Southern vowel system. Structural equivalence is the extent to which nodes inhabit similar positions within a social network. In this case, it describes the extent to which pairs of speakers attended the same schools. A distance matrix containing each pair’s network proximity is used to predict speakers’ linguistic similarity. The role of the individual and of the social indexicality of Southern variants is considered in the context of aggregate patterns of variation.}, number={1}, journal={GLOSSA-A JOURNAL OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS}, publisher={Open Library of the Humanities}, author={Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2019}, month={Jun} } @misc{dodsworth_benton_2019, title={Language Variation and Change in Social Networks}, ISBN={9781315642000}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315642000}, DOI={10.4324/9781315642000}, publisher={Routledge}, author={Dodsworth, Robin and Benton, Richard}, year={2019}, month={Aug} } @article{dodsworth_benton_2019, title={Previous Approaches to Network Analysis in Sociolinguistics}, DOI={10.4324/9781315642000-1}, journal={Language Variation and Change in Social Networks}, publisher={Routledge}, author={Dodsworth, Robin and Benton, Richard}, year={2019}, month={Aug}, pages={1–38} } @inbook{dodsworth_2018, place={Chapel Hill, NC}, title={Community detection and the reversal of the Southern Vowel Shift in Raleigh, North Carolina}, ISBN={9781469638805 9781469638799 9781469638812}, booktitle={Language Variety in the New South: Contemporary Perspectives on Change and Variation}, publisher={UNC Press}, author={Dodsworth, Robin}, editor={Reaser, J. and Wilbanks, E. and Wojcik, K. and Wolfram, W.Editors}, year={2018}, pages={241–256} } @article{dinkin_dodsworth_2017, title={Gradience, allophony, and chain shifts}, volume={29}, ISSN={["1469-8021"]}, DOI={10.1017/s0954394517000035}, abstractNote={ABSTRACTThe monophthongization of /ay/ in the Southern United States is disfavored by following voiceless consonants (price) relative to voiced or word-final environments (prize). If monophthongization is the trigger for the Southern Shift (Labov, 2010) and chain shifts operate as predicted by a modular feedforward phonological theory (cf. Bermúdez-Otero, 2007), this impliespriceandprizemust be two ends of a phonetic continuum, rather than two discrete allophones. We test this hypothesis via distributional analysis of offglide targets and statistical analysis of the effect of vowel duration. As predicted, we findpriceandprizeshare a continuous distribution in the Inland South, the region where the Southern Shift probably originated (Labov, Ash, & Boberg, 2006). We use Raleigh, North Carolina, outside the Inland South, as a comparison point; there, the same methodologies indicatepriceandprizeare more discretely separated. Our results thus offer empirical support for the phonological theory that motivated the hypothesis.}, number={1}, journal={LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE}, author={Dinkin, Aaron J. and Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2017}, month={Mar}, pages={101–127} } @article{dodsworth_2017, title={Migration and Dialect Contact}, volume={3}, ISSN={["2333-9691"]}, DOI={10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011516-034108}, abstractNote={ A great deal of research during the past 40 years and earlier investigates the outcomes of large-scale contact between mutually intelligible dialects. In the context of well-established types of dialect convergence, this article summarizes research from the past 10 years on migration-induced dialect contact. I devote particular attention to ongoing dialect contact in the urban settings of London, England; São Paulo, Brazil; Xining, China; Amman, Jordan; and New York City, United States. In all cases, the data show evidence of the expected process of dialect leveling, but linguistic innovations emerging from dialect contact are also prominent. Social network and identity factors are predicted to define much future dialect contact research. }, number={1}, journal={ANNUAL REVIEW OF LINGUISTICS, VOL 3}, publisher={Annual Reviews}, author={Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2017}, pages={331–346} } @article{owens_dodsworth_2017, title={Semantic mapping: What happens to idioms in discourse}, volume={55}, ISSN={["1613-396X"]}, DOI={10.1515/ling-2017-0007}, abstractNote={AbstractIdioms have generally played a supporting rather than a leading role in research on figurative language. In Cognitive Linguistics for instance idioms have been understood against how they are embedded in conceptual metaphors (Lakoff 1987,Women, fire, and dangerous things. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Clausner and Croft 1997, Productivity and schematicity in metaphors.Cognitive Science21. 247–282) while in the experimental psycholinguistic tradition their role has been to challenge the basis of conceptual metaphor in “priming” figurative language (Glucksberg et al. 1993, Conceptual metaphors are not automatically accessed during idiom comprehension.Memory and Cognition21. 711–719; McGlone 2007, What is the explanatory value of a conceptual metaphor?Language and Communication27. 109–206). It is, moreover, broadly assumed that criteria defining grammatical properties of idioms are limited to their morphological and syntactic behavior (Nunberg et al. 1994, Idioms.Language70. 491–538). While the pragmatic properties of idioms have been described informally (Glucksberg 2001.Understanding figurative language: From metaphors to idioms(Oxford psychology series 36). Oxford: OUP), there are few studies which systematically contrast the behavior of nouns in literal vs. idiomatic expressions in discourse. Using a battery of criteria which has been developed to study discourse properties of subjects in spoken Arabic (Owens et al. 2013. Subject expression and discourse embeddedness in Emirati Arabic.Language Variation and Change25. 255–285), we show that keyword nouns in Nigerian Arabic are significantly different according to whether they are idiomatic or literal. The basis of the conclusion is the statistical analysis of 1403 tokens derived from a large corpus of natural Nigerian Arabic texts. Nouns in idiomatic expressions are opaque to discourse in a way those in literal ones are not. To explain the statistical results we argue that idioms partake in a ‘semantic mapping’ which incorporates the noun and its collocate in the idiom into a word-like unit, rendering it largely invisible to subsequent discourse. Since Nigerian Arabic idiomatic nouns, as is shown, display no clause-internal syntactic constraints, exhibit no cross-clausal syntactic dependencies, and show no significant interactions with possessive pronouns which ostensibly appear to mark the discourse argument of the keyword they are suffixed to, it is concluded that the mapping is of semantic nature. Other than exemplifying basic facts obtained via elicitation, the entire argument hinges on an examination of nouns in actual spoken discourse. The article establishes that large corpora coupled with multivariate statistical treatment contribute directly to understanding semantic factors difficult to evaluate via direct elicitation or examination of individual examples, in this case the sensitivity of cross-clausal referentiality to idiomatic contextualization.}, number={3}, journal={LINGUISTICS}, author={Owens, Jonathan and Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2017}, month={May}, pages={641–682} } @article{dodsworth_benton_2017, title={Social network cohesion and the retreat from Southern vowels in Raleigh}, volume={46}, ISSN={["1469-8013"]}, DOI={10.1017/s0047404517000185}, abstractNote={AbstractNetwork research in sociolinguistics suggests that integration in a local community network promotes speakers' retention of local linguistic variants in the context of pressure from external or standard dialects. In most sociolinguistic network research, a speaker is assigned a single score along an index representing the aggregate of several network and other social features. We propose that contemporary network methods in adjacent disciplines can profitably apply to sociolinguistics, thereby facilitating not only more generalizable quantitative analysis but also new questions about therelationalnature of linguistic variables. Two network analysis methods—cohesive blocking and Quadratic Assignment Procedure regression—are used to evaluate the social network factors shaping the retreat from the Southern Vowel Shift (SVS) in Raleigh, North Carolina. The data come from a 160-speaker subset of a conversational corpus. Significant network effects indicate that network proximity to Raleigh's urban core promotes retention of SVS features, and that network similarity between speakers corresponds to linguistic similarity. Contemporary social-network methods can contribute to linguistic analysis by providing a holistic picture of the community's structure. (Networks, sociophonetics, Southern Vowel Shift, dialect contact)*}, number={3}, journal={LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Dodsworth, Robin and Benton, Richard A.}, year={2017}, month={Jun}, pages={371–405} } @article{dodsworth_2016, title={Hey, y’all! Are we losing our drawl?}, journal={Tarheel Junior Historian Magazine}, author={Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2016} } @inbook{carignan_mielke_dodsworth_2016, place={Berlin}, title={Tongue trajectories in North American English short-a tensing}, booktitle={The Future of Dialects}, publisher={Language Science Press}, author={Carignan, Christopher and Mielke, Jeff and Dodsworth, Robin}, editor={Coté, Marie-Hélène and Knooihuizen, Remco and Nerbonne, JohnEditors}, year={2016}, pages={313–319} } @article{forrest_dodsworth_2016, title={Towards a sociologically grounded view of occupation in sociolinguistics}, volume={22}, number={2}, journal={University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics}, publisher={Penn Graduate Linguistics Society}, author={Forrest, Jon and Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2016} } @article{dodsworth_2015, title={Social class in applied linguistics}, volume={44}, ISSN={["1469-8013"]}, DOI={10.1017/s0047404515000433}, abstractNote={An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.}, number={4}, journal={LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY}, author={Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2015}, month={Sep}, pages={581–584} } @article{dodsworth_2015, title={Speaking Pittsburghese: The Story of a Dialect}, volume={25}, ISSN={["1548-1395"]}, DOI={10.1111/jola.12077}, abstractNote={Journal of Linguistic AnthropologyVolume 25, Issue 1 p. 93-95 BOOK REVIEW Speaking Pittsburghese: The Story of a Dialect by Johnstone, Barbara. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. pp. xxii + 266. Robin Dodsworth, Robin Dodsworth robin_dodsworth@ncsu.edu North Carolina State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Robin Dodsworth, Robin Dodsworth robin_dodsworth@ncsu.edu North Carolina State UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 18 May 2015 https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12077Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume25, Issue1May 2015Pages 93-95 RelatedInformation}, number={1}, journal={JOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2015}, month={May}, pages={93–95} } @article{dodsworth_2014, title={Network embeddedness and the retreat from Southern vowels in Raleigh, NC}, volume={20}, number={2}, journal={University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Selected Papers from NWAV 42}, author={Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2014} } @inbook{dodsworth_kohn_2013, place={Frankfurt}, title={Dialect reallocation in Southern U.S. English}, booktitle={Variation in Language and Language Use: Linguistic, Socio-Cultural, and Cognitive Perspectives}, publisher={Peter Lang}, author={Dodsworth, Robin and Kohn, Mary}, editor={Putz, M. and Reif, Monika and Robinson, J.Editors}, year={2013}, pages={16–35} } @article{dodsworth_2013, title={Retreat from the Southern Vowel Shift in Raleigh, NC: Social factors}, volume={19}, number={2}, journal={University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Selected Papers from NWAV 41}, author={Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2013} } @inbook{dodsworth_2013, title={Speech communities, social networks, and communities of practice}, booktitle={Research Methods in Sociolinguistics}, publisher={Wiley-Blackwell}, author={Dodsworth, Robin}, editor={Holmes, Janet and Hazen, KirkEditors}, year={2013}, pages={262–275} } @article{owens_dodsworth_kohn_2013, title={Subject expression and discourse embeddedness in Emirati Arabic}, volume={25}, ISSN={["1469-8021"]}, DOI={10.1017/s0954394513000173}, abstractNote={AbstractSince Prince (1981) and Givón (1983), studies on discourse reference have explained the grammatical realization of referents in terms of general concepts such as “assumed familiarity” or “discourse coherence.” In this paper, we develop a complementary approach based on a detailed statistical tracking of subjects in Emirati Arabic, from which two major categories of subject expression emerge. On the one hand, null subjects are opposed to overt ones; on the other, subject-verb (SV) is opposed to verb-subject (VS). Although null subjects strongly correlate with coreferentiality with the subject of the previous clause, they can also index more distant referents within a single episode. With respect to SV vs. VS, morpholexical classes are found to be biased toward one or the other: nouns are typically VS, pronouns SV. We conclude that the null subject variant is the norm in Emirati Arabic, and when an overt subject is appropriate, lexical identity biases the subject into SV or VS order, generating word order as a discourse-relevant parameter. Overall, our approach attempts to understand Arabic discourse from a microlevel perspective.}, number={3}, journal={LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Owens, Jonathan and Dodsworth, Robin and Kohn, Mary}, year={2013}, pages={255–285} } @article{dodsworth_2012, title={Analysing Variation in English}, volume={16}, ISSN={["1360-6441"]}, DOI={10.1111/josl.12008}, abstractNote={Journal of SociolinguisticsVolume 16, Issue 5 p. 713-716 Book Review Warren Maguire and April McMahon (eds.). Analysing Variation in English. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. 2010. 332 pp. Hb (9780521898669) $99.00. Robin Dodsworth, Robin Dodsworth [email protected] North Carolina State University, Department of English, 221 Tompkins Hall, Box 8105, Raleigh, NC, 27695-8105 U.S.ASearch for more papers by this author Robin Dodsworth, Robin Dodsworth [email protected] North Carolina State University, Department of English, 221 Tompkins Hall, Box 8105, Raleigh, NC, 27695-8105 U.S.ASearch for more papers by this author First published: 26 December 2012 https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12008Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Volume16, Issue5November 2012Pages 713-716 RelatedInformation}, number={5}, journal={JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS}, author={Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2012}, month={Nov}, pages={713–716} } @article{dodsworth_kohn_2012, title={Urban rejection of the vernacular: The SVS undone}, volume={24}, ISSN={["0954-3945"]}, DOI={10.1017/s0954394512000105}, abstractNote={AbstractIn Raleigh, North Carolina, a Southern U.S. city, five decades of in-migration of technology-sector workers from outside the South has resulted in large-scale contact between the local Southern dialect and non-Southern dialects. This paper investigates the speed and magnitude of the reversal of the Southern Vowel Shift (SVS) with respect to the five front vowels, using Trudgill's (1998) model of dialect contact as a framework. The data consist of conversational interviews with 59 white-collar Raleigh natives representing three generations, the first generation having reached adulthood before large-scale contact. Acoustic analysis shows that all vowels shift away from their Southern variants across apparent time. The leveling of SVS variants begins within the first generation to grow up after large-scale contact began, and contrary to predictions, this generation does not show wide inter- or intraspeaker variability. Previous studies of dialect contact and new dialect formation suggest that leveling of regional dialect features and the establishment of stable linguistic norms occurs more quickly when children have regular contact with one another. Dialect contact in Raleigh has occurred primarily within the middle and upper classes, the members of which are densely connected by virtue of schools and heavy economic segregation in neighborhood residence.}, number={2}, journal={LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE}, author={Dodsworth, Robin and Kohn, Mary}, year={2012}, pages={221–245} } @book{michnowicz_dodswort_2011, place={Somerville, MA}, title={Selected Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics}, publisher={Cascadilla Press}, year={2011} } @article{dodsworth_2011, title={Social Class}, DOI={10.4135/9781446200957.n15}, journal={The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics}, publisher={SAGE Publications Ltd}, author={Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2011}, pages={192–207} } @article{mallinson_dodsworth_2010, title={Revisiting the Need for New Approaches to Social Class in Variationist Sociolinguistics}, volume={3}, ISSN={1750-8657 1750-8649}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/sols.v3i2.253}, DOI={10.1558/sols.v3i2.253}, abstractNote={To better account for patterns in language variation by social class and to conceptualise and analyse social class in new and refined ways, many sociolinguists have recommended looking to theoretical and methodological advancements in sociology and anthropology. We review a contemporary sociological approach to social class, formulated by Joan Acker (2000, 2006), and apply it to the study of linguistic variation in two U.S. communities. While Acker’s framework may advance sociolinguists’ understanding of the complexities of social class, the advantages of Acker’s model do not, as yet, clearly and readily translate to variationist sociolinguistics. We conclude that social class frameworks from sociology or other fields may require some calibrating to the goal of variationist sociolinguistics, which is not the study of social class itself, but rather the dynamics of language variation and change, of which social class plays an integral part.}, number={2}, journal={Sociolinguistic Studies}, publisher={Equinox Publishing}, author={Mallinson, Christine and Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2010}, month={Feb}, pages={253–278} } @article{durian_dodsworth_schumacher_2009, title={CONVERGENCE IN BLUE-COLLAR COLUMBUS, OHIO, AFRICAN AMERICAN AND WHITE VOWEL SYSTEMS?}, volume={94}, DOI={10.1215/-94-1-161}, abstractNote={Research Article| December 01 2009 CONVERGENCE IN BLUE-COLLAR COLUMBUS, OHIO, AFRICAN AMERICAN AND WHITE VOWEL SYSTEMS? DAVID DURIAN; DAVID DURIAN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google ROBIN DODSWORTH; ROBIN DODSWORTH Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google JENNIFER SCHUMACHER JENNIFER SCHUMACHER Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (2009) 94 (1): 161–190. https://doi.org/10.1215/-94-1-161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation DAVID DURIAN, ROBIN DODSWORTH, JENNIFER SCHUMACHER; CONVERGENCE IN BLUE-COLLAR COLUMBUS, OHIO, AFRICAN AMERICAN AND WHITE VOWEL SYSTEMS?. Publication of the American Dialect Society 1 December 2009; 94 (1): 161–190. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-94-1-161 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Dialect SocietyThe Publication of the American Dialect Society Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. American Dialect Society2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: The Urban Midwest You do not currently have access to this content.}, number={1}, journal={The Publication of the American Dialect Society}, publisher={Duke University Press}, author={DURIAN, DAVID and DODSWORTH, ROBIN and SCHUMACHER, JENNIFER}, year={2009}, pages={161–190} } @inbook{owens_young_rockwood_mehall_dodsworth_2009, title={Explaining null and overt subjects in spoken Arabic}, booktitle={Information Structure in Spoken Arabic}, publisher={Routledge}, author={Owens, Jonathan and Young, Bill and Rockwood, Trent and Mehall, David and Dodsworth, Robin}, editor={Owens, Jonathan and Elgibali, AlaaEditors}, year={2009} } @article{dodsworth_2009, title={Modeling Socioeconomic Class in Variationist Sociolinguistics}, volume={3}, ISSN={1749-818X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818x.2009.00167.x}, DOI={10.1111/j.1749-818x.2009.00167.x}, abstractNote={AbstractModeling socioeconomic class has been a persistent challenge in the analysis of sociolinguistic variation. While early stratificational models formulated on the basis of socioeconomic indicators such as income, occupation, and area of residence revealed compelling patterns of linguistic variation, they were critiqued for their lack of explanatory power at the interactional level and for their marginalization of those without paid employment. Subsequent models have employed cross‐disciplinary concepts such as the linguistic market, social networks, and communities of practice, prioritizing local social distinctions that are understood to reflect or even constitute abstract structural categories such as ‘working class’ or ‘middle class’. It is argued that a full socioeconomic class paradigm for sociolinguistics would also theorize class at the aggregate level, and to this end, sociological class models may prove useful. Contemporary sociological class analysis at the level of social practice offers additional avenues for interfacing with sociology.}, number={5}, journal={Language and Linguistics Compass}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2009}, month={Aug}, pages={1314–1327} } @article{owens_dodsworth_2009, title={Stability in Subject-Verb Word Order: From Contemporary Arabian Peninsular Arabic to Biblical Aramaic}, volume={51}, DOI={10.1353/anl.0.0014}, abstractNote={ This article differs from traditional treatments of subject-verb word order in Semitic in two respects. First, we take as our point of departure a detailed study of word order in contemporary Arabian Peninsular Arabic, which shows that the respective order of the subject and verb in that variety is determined by morpholexical and by discourse-immanent factors. From this starting point, we work backwards, applying the same analytical framework to subject-verb word order in Biblical Aramaic. Secondly, we use corpus-based quantitative methods and regression analysis to determine the degree of similarity between Arabian Peninsular Arabic and Biblical Aramaic. It emerges that, for all intents and purposes, subject-verb word order in Arabian Peninsular Arabic and Biblical Aramaic are governed by an identical set of morpholexical and discourse constraints. Historical explanations for these results are discussed; it is emphasized that, whether the patterns are due to common inheritance or to diffusion, a complex pattern of word order determination is sustained over at least 2,500 years of chronological time. }, number={2}, journal={Anthropological Linguistics}, publisher={Project Muse}, author={Owens, Jonathan and Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2009}, pages={151–175} } @article{owens_dodsworth_rockwood_2009, title={Subject-verb order in spoken Arabic: Morpholexical and event-based factors}, volume={21}, ISSN={["0954-3945"]}, DOI={10.1017/s0954394509000027}, abstractNote={AbstractThis article explores the relationship between the global functions of variable subject-verb order and morpholexical class of subjects in the spoken Arabic of the Arabian peninsula. Using corpus-based methods, it is shown that lexical class—pronoun, pronominal, noun—definiteness, and the discourse-defined lexical specificity of a noun all correlate significantly with subject-verb or verb-subject word order. The global function of the two orders is explored using an array of measures to show that verb-subject order prototypically presents events, while subject-verb signals available referentiality. Using the quantitatively based study of Anthony Naro and Sebastiao Votre ([1999]. Discourse motivations for linguistic regularities: Verb/subject order in spoken Brazilian Portuguese.Probus11:75–100.) on Brazilian Portuguese as a point of comparison, a typological framework is developed for understanding languages with variable subject-verb order.}, number={1}, journal={LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE}, publisher={Cambridge University Press (CUP)}, author={Owens, Jonathan and Dodsworth, Robin and Rockwood, Trent}, year={2009}, pages={39–67} } @article{dandaneau_dodsworth_2008, title={A consuming passion: An interview with George Ritzer}, volume={11}, ISSN={1025-3866 1477-223X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10253860802190553}, DOI={10.1080/10253860802190553}, abstractNote={George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Ritzer was co‐founding editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture with Don Slater. In addition to his considerable work in the area of the sociology of consumption, Ritzer is especially known for Metatheorizing in sociology (1991), The McDonaldization of society (1993), The globalization of nothing (2004), and a truly scandalous number of additional publications in social theory and sociology generally. These interviews were conducted on the 2nd and 30th of May 2006.}, number={3}, journal={Consumption Markets & Culture}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Dandaneau, Steven P. and Dodsworth, Robin M.}, year={2008}, month={Aug}, pages={191–201} } @article{dodsworth_2008, title={Sociological consciousness as a component of linguistic variation}, volume={12}, ISSN={1360-6441 1467-9841}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9841.2008.00352.x}, DOI={10.1111/j.1467-9841.2008.00352.x}, abstractNote={While practice theory has provided a valuable framework for establishing connections between individual‐level sociolinguistic variation and social structures, Bourdieu's (1977) formulation of practice theory has been argued to inadequately address subjectivity. The sociologist C. Wright Mills' (1959) concept of the sociological imagination – consciousness of links among personal experiences, social structures, and historical processes – is posited as a partial solution, as it offers a framework for modeling one aspect of subjectivity. Use of the sociological imagination concept is demonstrated through a quantitative acoustic analysis of /o/ fronting in Worthington, Ohio, a Columbus suburb confronting acute urban sprawl. The distribution of /o/ fronting across 21 speakers largely resists traditional sociolinguistic explanations. A close analysis of four speakers' mental representations of the local tensions surrounding urban sprawl reveals significant differences which are argued to account for their variable use of fronted /o/.}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Sociolinguistics}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2008}, month={Feb}, pages={34–57} } @article{dandaneau_dodsworth_2006, title={Being (George Ritzer) and nothingness: An interview}, volume={37}, ISSN={0003-1232 1936-4784}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02915070}, DOI={10.1007/BF02915070}, number={4}, journal={The American Sociologist}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Dandaneau, Steven P. and Dodsworth, Robin M.}, year={2006}, month={Dec}, pages={84–96} } @article{dodsworth_2005, title={Attribute networking: A technique for modeling social perceptions}, volume={9}, ISSN={1360-6441 1467-9841}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-6441.2005.00291.x}, DOI={10.1111/j.1360-6441.2005.00291.x}, abstractNote={An original, network‐based technique is presented for modeling community members’ conceptions of local social space. Social categories derived from the model are used to investigate the social meaning of linguistic variation. The technique is first explained and then demonstrated using linguistic and ethnographic data from Worthington, Ohio, a Columbus suburb. Two linguistic variables are analyzed: (1)/l/ vocalization; and (2) the phonetic realization of the before vowel‐initial words. The results are discussed in the context of Columbus‐area urban sprawl and its perceived threat to Worthington's distinctiveness.}, number={2}, journal={Journal of Sociolinguistics}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2005}, month={May}, pages={225–253} } @misc{dodsworth_hume_2005, title={Jonathan Marshall. Language Change and Sociolinguistics: Rethinking Social Networks(Palgrave Studies in Language Variation). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. 246 pp. Hb (1403914877)f50.00.}, volume={9}, ISSN={1360-6441 1467-9841}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-6441.2005.00293h.x}, DOI={10.1111/j.1360-6441.2005.00293h.x}, abstractNote={Journal of SociolinguisticsVolume 9, Issue 2 p. 289-293 Jonathan Marshall. Language Change and Sociolinguistics: Rethinking Social Networks(Palgrave Studies in Language Variation). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. 246 pp. Hb (1403914877)£50.00. Reviewed by Robin Dodsworth, Reviewed by Robin DodsworthSearch for more papers by this authorElizabeth Hume, Elizabeth HumeSearch for more papers by this author Reviewed by Robin Dodsworth, Reviewed by Robin DodsworthSearch for more papers by this authorElizabeth Hume, Elizabeth HumeSearch for more papers by this author First published: 13 June 2005 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-6441.2005.00293h.xCitations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume9, Issue2May 2005Pages 289-293 RelatedInformation}, number={2}, journal={Journal of Sociolinguistics}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Dodsworth, Robin and Hume, Elizabeth}, year={2005}, month={May}, pages={289–293} } @article{dodsworth_2004, title={Attribute Networking: A Sociolinguistic Technique for Modeling Subjective Social Space}, volume={30}, ISSN={2377-1666 0363-2946}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v30i1.925}, DOI={10.3765/bls.v30i1.925}, abstractNote={n/a}, number={1}, journal={Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society}, publisher={Linguistic Society of America}, author={Dodsworth, Robin}, year={2004}, month={Jun}, pages={69} }