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In The Wake Of Coast Federal: The Plain Meaning Rule And The Anglo American Rhetorical Ethic, Kemit A. Mawakana University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

In The Wake Of Coast Federal: The Plain Meaning Rule And The Anglo American Rhetorical Ethic, Kemit A. Mawakana

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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“100% Authentic Pittsburgh”: Sociolinguistic Authenticity And The Linguistics Of Particularity, Barbara Johnstone Carnegie Mellon University

“100% Authentic Pittsburgh”: Sociolinguistic Authenticity And The Linguistics Of Particularity, Barbara Johnstone

Barbara Johnstone

As Bucholtz (2003), Coupland (2007, pp. 25-26), and others have pointed out, what counts as an authentic linguistic variety or an authentic speaker depends on who is counting and why. Sociolinguists have often unthinkingly privileged as their object of study the most unselfconsious, “vernacular” speech in relatively closed, homogeneous communities like traditional working-class neighborhoods, with their dense, multiplex social networks, and in the relatively self-contained symbolic economies of schools. This has allowed us to explore social correlates of variation and processes of change in communities where these things appear least muddied by outside influences, and doing so has given us ...

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