The Routledge Companion to the Work of John R. Rickford (Paperback)

Table of contentsIntroductionIntroduction to the volume Renee Blake and Isabelle Buchstaller The makings of a linguist: John R. Rickford’s education in his native GuyanaEwart ThomasExploring language contact from a sociolinguistic and socio-historical point of viewIntroductionJohn Victor Singler In the Fisherman’s net: Language contact in a sociolinguistics contextShelome GoodenAfrican- Indian- American South- and Caribbean worlds: connecting with John R. Rickford’s language contact researchRajend MesthrieIdeophones in Guyanese speech: An inventory of depictive lexemes and implications for (de)creolizationWalter Edwards and Onjel WilliamsSystemic linguistic discrimination and disenfranchisement in the Creolophone Caribbean: The case of the St. Lucian legal systemIan Robertson and Sandra Evans The English words in Sranan: From where, from whom and how?Andre Sherriah, Hubert Devonish, Ewart Thomas, and Nicole CreanzaAnother look at the creolist hypothesis of AAVE originsDon Winford Rickford’s list of African American English grammatical features: An updateArthur SpearsThe ‘aks’ of its day?: Revisiting invariant am in Early Black EnglishJohn McWhorter Viewing ex-slave narratives from a different angle: Variation and discourseLisa Green and Ayana WhitmalRace, class, and linguistic camouflage: Remote past BEEN and the divergence debate revisitedTracey WeldonThe sociolinguistic ramifications of social injustice: The case of Black ASLRobert Bayley, Ceil Lucas, Joseph Hill, and Carolyn McCaskillEthnolinguistic infusion at a Sephardic adventure campSarah Bunin Benor The political ramifications of linguistic heterogeneity IntroductionAlicia Beckford WassinkGiving voice to despair and defiance: Rickford in GuyanaWilliam Labov American mestizos in the Philippines: ‘Mongrelization’ and ‘mixedness’ in American colonial media discourseBonnie McElhinnyFamily matters: Seminal Rickford contributions to Kinesics, Education, Linguistics, and LawJohn Baugh‘Are you Soul Folk, Baby?’ Black English, struggle, and consciousness in the 1960s and 1970sRussell J. RickfordWe should declare AAL a separate language, although there’s no scientific reason (not) toRalph FasoldWhere sociolinguistics and speech science meet: The physiological and acoustic consequences of underbite in a multilectal speaker of African American EnglishAlicia Beckford WassinkCredibility without intelligibility: Implications for hearing vernacular speakersLauren Hall-Lew, Ines Paiva Couceiro and Amie Fars Using pharyngeals out of context: Linguistic stereotypes in parodic performances of Mizrahi Hebrew speakers Roey GafterSociolinguists trying to make a difference: race, research and linguistic activismMary BucholtzLinguistic justice: Evaluating the speech of asylum claimants Peter PatrickLinguistics on trial, under arrest, and in prison: On sharing sociolinguistic and forensic linguistic knowledge with attorneys, law enforcement practitioners, and incarcerated personsNatalie Schilling Implicit sociolinguistic bias and social justice Walt Wolfram and Karen EisenhauerForging new ways of hearing diversity: The politics of linguistic heterogeneity in the work of John R. RickfordSharese King and Jonathan RosaIV The stylistic implications of language variation and changeIntroductionEdward FineganIndexical obsolescencePenelope EckertAge grading, style, and language change: A lifespan perspectiveGillian SankoffStyle: The presentation of self in everyday life ? to an empty theater?Dennis PrestonPidgin, pride and prejudice: Race, gender and stylistic codeswitching in Nigerian stand-up comedyRudolf Gaudio‘I’d better schedule an MRI’: The linguistic stylization of ‘white’ ethnicity in comedy Carmen FoughtThe N word as an emblem of survival identity in African American comedyJacquelyn RahmanStyle in motion: Lectal focusing in an African American sermonDevyani Sharma, Lars Hinrichs, Tracy Conner, and Andrea KortenhovenTopic-restricting as far as revisitedRobin Melnick and Thomas WasowDon’t neglect the situation ? but don’t stop there either! On intra-individual variation Frans Gregersen V. The educational implications of linguistic heterogeneity and social injusticeIntroductionJulie Sweetland and Angela Rickford The Effects of culturally relevant texts and questions on the reading comprehension of students of color Angela E. RickfordVernaculars ? Symbols of solidarity and truth in literatureHazel Simmons-McDonaldTransnationalism, social networks, and heterogeneous language practices: A case study of a New York-based Jamaican studentShondel NeroVetting the Versatility ApproachJulie SweetlandJohn Rickford and social justice for speakers of Vernacular EnglishJeff SiegelI, too, am America’: African American Language, #BlackLivesMatter, and Critical (Socio)LinguisticsSonja LanehartA Pedagogy of Linguistic Justice: John Rickford in the classroom and the field Django ParisVI. VignettesJohn R. Rickford ? back in the dayGregory GuyTribute to a colleagueTom WasowPutting the humanity into linguisticsDan JurafskyNotes on mentorshipIsla Kristina Flores-BayerThe Consummate TeacherSarah RobertsOde to John R. RickfordChristine Theberge RafalNotes on crossdisciplinary mentorshipJanina FenigsenTribute to a scholarSalikoko S. MufweneSpoken Soul: Tribute to a seminal workGeneva Smitherman and H. Samy AlimJohn R. Rickford’s influence on language and practice Toya WyattTribute from an educatorNoma LeMoineBlack Lives MatterMichel DeGraff