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Linguistic and object-based stance-taking in Appalachian interviews

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Allison Burkette
Allison Burkette*
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Department of Modern Languages C-115 Bondurant Hall, University of Mississippi, MS 38677, [email protected]
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Abstract

This article uses data from interviews conducted in western North Carolina in order to examine the ways in which speakers enact authoritative, evaluative, and interactional stances to construct individual identity. In this data, we find a subtle interplay between the content of explicit statements, narrative content, and the use of grammatical features associated with Appalachian English (e.g. a-prefixing, nonstandard past tense), and the use of physical artifacts as sources of stance-taking. This article focuses on two speakers' use of (present and not-present) physical artifacts (a placemat, a Civil War era sword, a lock of hair, and a piece of wood with a bullet hole in it) to enact stances that construct individual versions of an Appalachian identity. What this analysis suggests is that it is not just linguistic choices that contribute to stance enactment, but physical objects as well. (Sociolinguistics, stance-taking, Appalachian English, material culture, language and idenity)*

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Language in Society , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , June 2016 , pp. 331 - 351
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