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Table of contents
- Introduction
- Introduction to the volume
Renée Blake and Isabelle Buchstaller
- The makings of a linguist: John R. Rickford’s education in his native Guyana
Ewart Thomas
- Exploring language contact from a sociolinguistic and socio-historical point of view
- Introduction
John Victor Singler
- In the Fisherman’s net: Language contact in a sociolinguistics context
Shelome Gooden
- African- Indian- American South- and Caribbean worlds: connecting with John R. Rickford’s language contact research
Rajend Mesthrie
- Ideophones in Guyanese speech: An inventory of depictive lexemes and implications for (de)creolization
Walter Edwards and Onjel Williams
- Systemic linguistic discrimination and disenfranchisement in the Creolophone Caribbean: The case of the St. Lucian legal system
Ian Robertson and Sandra Evans
- The English words in Sranan: From where, from whom and how?
André Sherriah, Hubert Devonish, Ewart Thomas, and Nicole Creanza
- Another look at the creolist hypothesis of AAVE origins
Don Winford
- Rickford’s list of African American English grammatical features: An update
Arthur Spears
- The ‘aks’ of its day?: Revisiting invariant am in Early Black English
John McWhorter
- Viewing ex-slave narratives from a different angle: Variation and discourse
Lisa Green and Ayana Whitmal
- Race, class, and linguistic camouflage: Remote past BEEN and the divergence debate revisited
Tracey Weldon
- The sociolinguistic ramifications of social injustice: The case of Black ASL
Robert Bayley, Ceil Lucas, Joseph Hill, and Carolyn McCaskill
- Ethnolinguistic infusion at a Sephardic adventure camp
Sarah Bunin Benor
- The political ramifications of linguistic heterogeneity
- Introduction
Alicia Beckford Wassink
- Giving voice to despair and defiance: Rickford in Guyana
William Labov
- American mestizos in the Philippines: ‘Mongrelization’ and ‘mixedness’ in American colonial media discourse
Bonnie McElhinny
- Family matters: Seminal Rickford contributions to Kinesics, Education, Linguistics, and Law
John Baugh
- ‘Are you Soul Folk, Baby?’ Black English, struggle, and consciousness in the 1960s and 1970s
Russell J. Rickford
- We should declare AAL a separate language, although there’s no scientific reason (not) to
Ralph Fasold
- Where sociolinguistics and speech science meet: The physiological and acoustic consequences of underbite in a multilectal speaker of African American English
Alicia Beckford Wassink
- Credibility without intelligibility: Implications for hearing vernacular speakers
Lauren Hall-Lew, Inês Paiva Couceiro and Amie Fars
- Using pharyngeals out of context: Linguistic stereotypes in parodic performances of Mizrahi Hebrew speakers
Roey Gafter
- Sociolinguists trying to make a difference: race, research and linguistic activism
Mary Bucholtz
- Linguistic justice: Evaluating the speech of asylum claimants
Peter Patrick
- Linguistics on trial, under arrest, and in prison: On sharing sociolinguistic and forensic linguistic knowledge with attorneys, law enforcement practitioners, and incarcerated persons
Natalie Schilling
- Implicit sociolinguistic bias and social justice
Walt Wolfram and Karen Eisenhauer
- Forging new ways of hearing diversity: The politics of linguistic heterogeneity in the work of John R. Rickford
Sharese King and Jonathan Rosa
IV The stylistic implications of language variation and change
- Introduction
Edward Finegan
- Indexical obsolescence
Penelope Eckert
- Age grading, style, and language change: A lifespan perspective
Gillian Sankoff
- Style: The presentation of self in everyday life – to an empty theater?
Dennis Preston
- Pidgin, pride and prejudice: Race, gender and stylistic codeswitching in Nigerian stand-up comedy
Rudolf Gaudio
- ‘I’d better schedule an MRI’: The linguistic stylization of ‘white’ ethnicity in comedy Carmen Fought
- The N word as an emblem of survival identity in African American comedy
Jacquelyn Rahman
- Style in motion: Lectal focusing in an African American sermon
Devyani Sharma, Lars Hinrichs, Tracy Conner, and Andrea Kortenhoven
- Topic-restricting as far as revisited
Robin Melnick and Thomas Wasow
- Don’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 injustice
- Introduction
Julie Sweetland and Angela Rickford
- The Effects of culturally relevant texts and questions on the reading comprehension of students of color
Angela E. Rickford
- Vernaculars – Symbols of solidarity and truth in literature
Hazel Simmons-McDonald
- Transnationalism, social networks, and heterogeneous language practices: A case study of a New York-based Jamaican student
Shondel Nero
- Vetting the Versatility Approach
Julie Sweetland
- John Rickford and social justice for speakers of Vernacular English
Jeff Siegel
- I, too, am America’: African American Language, #BlackLivesMatter, and Critical (Socio)Linguistics
Sonja Lanehart
- A Pedagogy of Linguistic Justice: John Rickford in the classroom and the field
Django Paris
VI. Vignettes
John R. Rickford – back in the day
Gregory Guy
Tribute to a colleague
Tom Wasow
Putting the humanity into linguistics
Dan Jurafsky
Notes on mentorship
Isla Kristina Flores-Bayer
The Consummate Teacher
Sarah Roberts
Ode to John R. Rickford
Christine Théberge Rafal
Notes on crossdisciplinary mentorship
Janina Fenigsen
Tribute to a scholar
Salikoko S. Mufwene
Spoken Soul: Tribute to a seminal work
Geneva Smitherman and H. Samy Alim
John R. Rickford’s influence on language and practice
Toya Wyatt
Tribute from an educator
Noma LeMoine
Black Lives Matter
Michel DeGraff
About the author
Renée Blake is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, USA.
Isabelle Buchstaller is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Summary
This comprehensive collection is the first full book-length volume to bring together writing focused around and inspired by the work of John Rickford and his role in sociolinguistic research over the last four decades.
