Betsy Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 89643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Betsy Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Betsy |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2186-1339 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Needed Research in Language Regard
Research Article| December 01 2023 13. Needed Research in Language Regard Betsy E. Evans; Betsy E. Evans betsy e. evans is associate professor of linguistics at the University of Washington. Her research concentrates on linguistic variation and how that relates to the function of language in marking identity, status, group solidarity, and cultural values and draws heavily on perceptions and attitudes to language variation. Email: [email protected]. …
The Effects of Age and Gender on the Perceptions of Linguistic Variation in the Qassimi Arabic Dialect
This article examines the effects of age and gender on perceptions that speakers of Qassimi Arabic, a variety of Najdi Arabic spoken in central Saudi Arabia, have of the placement and extent of dialect areas marked on hand-drawn maps representing variation within their own dialect. Analysis of composite maps of respondents' perceptions using a GIS mapping program (ArcGIS) reveals that both age and gender have an effect on respondents' perceptions…
Everybody Sounds the Same
When analyzing dialectology survey data, researchers usually exclude respondents who do not complete the survey as directed. It is argued here that such “unusable” responses can be considered “outlier” data and analyzed rather than be excluded, allowing otherwise overlooked language ideologies to emerge. Responses to a perceptual dialectology map survey in which 31 of the 229 respondents wrote comments on a map of Washington state, without drawin…
‘If we say English, that means America’
This paper reports the results of a survey of 101 Japanese university students' perceptions of different varieties of English using an open-ended questionnaire. Participants indicated their first impressions of varieties of English that they had named. This methodology allows participants themselves to provide the specific varieties as well as the evaluative categories and avoids problems associated with using voice stimuli while capturing the st…
Seattletonian" to "Faux Hick
This article describes a subset of data from a larger project investigating perceptions that Washington State residents have about English spoken in their state to explore dialect variation and the social and regional evaluation of it in this under-studied region. Respondents were asked to draw on a map of Washington the places where they believe people speak “differently” and to give a label for that way of speaking. The results indicate that re…
Chinese perceptions of Inner Circle varieties of English
Research from populations around the world on attitudes to varieties of English is essential in order to have a better understanding of how the complexities of globalization play a role in the form of English as a world language. To that end, university students in China were asked to name countries around the world where they believe English is spoken and indicate what kind of impression they have of those varieties without the presentation of v…
Globalization
Viewed as a destructive force or an inevitability of modern society, globalization is the focus of a multitude of disciplines. A clear understanding of its processes and terminology is imperative for anyone engaging with this ubiquitous topic. Globalization: the Key Concepts offers a comprehensive guide to this cross-disciplinary subject and covers concepts such as: homogenization neo-Liberalism risk knowledge society time-space compression refle…
What Does the Word ‘Globalisation’ Mean to You
Political leaders, the media, business people, trade union leaders and academics continually refer to how globalisation is impacting on our lives. Governments may at times argue that globalisation benefits us, and at others attribute to globalisation many of the major problems we currently face. What do ordinary people make of all this? We do not have a systematic account of their understandings, in terms of the primary associations they make wit…
Imagining Wales and the Welsh Language
A survey of approximately 2,000 informants with links to Wales provided differentiated data on Welsh social identities and affiliation, engagement with Welsh cultural practices, and perceptions of the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Welsh language and of domain priorities for Welsh. The data were interrogated mainly in relation to "flowgroups" (participants with different patterns of lived history inside and outside Wales) and groups based on deg…
Affiliation, Engagement, Language Use and Vitality
(2005). Affiliation, Engagement, Language Use and Vitality: Secondary School Students’ Subjective Orientations to Welsh and Welshness. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 1-24
Attitudinal data from New Zealand, Australia, the USA and UK about each other’s Englishes
Recent attitudinal research by Bayard et al. (2001) suggested changes in the comparative evaluations of Australian, New Zealand, US and English Englishes, with US English on its way to becoming the preferred variety. We revisit these attitudes after a period of political change in the US, and using a research methodology in line with folklinguistic approaches to attitudes research (e. g. Preston 1996). Convenience samples of respondents in these …
The role of social network in the acquisition of local dialect norms by Appalachian migrants in Ypsilanti, Michigan
This research explores the extent to which the speech of Appalachian migrants in Ypsilanti, Michigan has been affected by the emerging local norm, an ongoing dialect change labeled the Northern Cities Shift (NCS). Recorded speech from these migrants was acoustically analyzed to determine whether the NCS feature of low-front vowel raising of was present. Index scores derived from formant values were then subjected to statistical analysis to determ…
Singing in Welsh, Becoming Welsh
This paper explores the adoption of aspects of Welsh social identity by members of an American college choir specialising in Welsh repertoire. Drawing on questionnaires, face-to-face and e-mail interviews, and recordings of the choir in performance, a picture is built up of the singers' attitudes towards Welsh people, culture and language, and their linguistic practices in relation to Welsh songs. Using the metaphor of 'turfing', in which a cultu…
Imagining Wales and the Welsh Language
A survey of approximately 2,000 informants with links to Wales provided differentiated data on Welsh social identities and affiliation, engagement with Welsh cultural practices, and perceptions of the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Welsh language and of domain priorities for Welsh. The data were interrogated mainly in relation to "flowgroups" (participants with different patterns of lived history inside and outside Wales) and groups based on deg…
Seattletonian" to "Faux Hick
This article describes a subset of data from a larger project investigating perceptions that Washington State residents have about English spoken in their state to explore dialect variation and the social and regional evaluation of it in this under-studied region. Respondents were asked to draw on a map of Washington the places where they believe people speak “differently” and to give a label for that way of speaking. The results indicate that re…
The role of social network in the acquisition of local dialect norms by Appalachian migrants in Ypsilanti, Michigan
This research explores the extent to which the speech of Appalachian migrants in Ypsilanti, Michigan has been affected by the emerging local norm, an ongoing dialect change labeled the Northern Cities Shift (NCS). Recorded speech from these migrants was acoustically analyzed to determine whether the NCS feature of low-front vowel raising of was present. Index scores derived from formant values were then subjected to statistical analysis to determ…
Attitudinal data from New Zealand, Australia, the USA and UK about each other’s Englishes
Recent attitudinal research by Bayard et al. (2001) suggested changes in the comparative evaluations of Australian, New Zealand, US and English Englishes, with US English on its way to becoming the preferred variety. We revisit these attitudes after a period of political change in the US, and using a research methodology in line with folklinguistic approaches to attitudes research (e. g. Preston 1996). Convenience samples of respondents in these …
Everybody Sounds the Same
When analyzing dialectology survey data, researchers usually exclude respondents who do not complete the survey as directed. It is argued here that such “unusable” responses can be considered “outlier” data and analyzed rather than be excluded, allowing otherwise overlooked language ideologies to emerge. Responses to a perceptual dialectology map survey in which 31 of the 229 respondents wrote comments on a map of Washington state, without drawin…
Chinese perceptions of Inner Circle varieties of English
Research from populations around the world on attitudes to varieties of English is essential in order to have a better understanding of how the complexities of globalization play a role in the form of English as a world language. To that end, university students in China were asked to name countries around the world where they believe English is spoken and indicate what kind of impression they have of those varieties without the presentation of v…
Singing in Welsh, Becoming Welsh
This paper explores the adoption of aspects of Welsh social identity by members of an American college choir specialising in Welsh repertoire. Drawing on questionnaires, face-to-face and e-mail interviews, and recordings of the choir in performance, a picture is built up of the singers' attitudes towards Welsh people, culture and language, and their linguistic practices in relation to Welsh songs. Using the metaphor of 'turfing', in which a cultu…
What Does the Word ‘Globalisation’ Mean to You
Political leaders, the media, business people, trade union leaders and academics continually refer to how globalisation is impacting on our lives. Governments may at times argue that globalisation benefits us, and at others attribute to globalisation many of the major problems we currently face. What do ordinary people make of all this? We do not have a systematic account of their understandings, in terms of the primary associations they make wit…
Singing in Welsh, Becoming Welsh
This paper explores the adoption of aspects of Welsh social identity by members of an American college choir specialising in Welsh repertoire. Drawing on questionnaires, face-to-face and e-mail interviews, and recordings of the choir in performance, a picture is built up of the singers' attitudes towards Welsh people, culture and language, and their linguistic practices in relation to Welsh songs. Using the metaphor of 'turfing', in which a cultu…
The role of social network in the acquisition of local dialect norms by Appalachian migrants in Ypsilanti, Michigan
This research explores the extent to which the speech of Appalachian migrants in Ypsilanti, Michigan has been affected by the emerging local norm, an ongoing dialect change labeled the Northern Cities Shift (NCS). Recorded speech from these migrants was acoustically analyzed to determine whether the NCS feature of low-front vowel raising of was present. Index scores derived from formant values were then subjected to statistical analysis to determ…
Affiliation, Engagement, Language Use and Vitality
(2005). Affiliation, Engagement, Language Use and Vitality: Secondary School Students’ Subjective Orientations to Welsh and Welshness. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 1-24
Attitudinal data from New Zealand, Australia, the USA and UK about each other’s Englishes
Recent attitudinal research by Bayard et al. (2001) suggested changes in the comparative evaluations of Australian, New Zealand, US and English Englishes, with US English on its way to becoming the preferred variety. We revisit these attitudes after a period of political change in the US, and using a research methodology in line with folklinguistic approaches to attitudes research (e. g. Preston 1996). Convenience samples of respondents in these …
What Does the Word ‘Globalisation’ Mean to You
Political leaders, the media, business people, trade union leaders and academics continually refer to how globalisation is impacting on our lives. Governments may at times argue that globalisation benefits us, and at others attribute to globalisation many of the major problems we currently face. What do ordinary people make of all this? We do not have a systematic account of their understandings, in terms of the primary associations they make wit…
Imagining Wales and the Welsh Language
A survey of approximately 2,000 informants with links to Wales provided differentiated data on Welsh social identities and affiliation, engagement with Welsh cultural practices, and perceptions of the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Welsh language and of domain priorities for Welsh. The data were interrogated mainly in relation to "flowgroups" (participants with different patterns of lived history inside and outside Wales) and groups based on deg…
Globalization
Viewed as a destructive force or an inevitability of modern society, globalization is the focus of a multitude of disciplines. A clear understanding of its processes and terminology is imperative for anyone engaging with this ubiquitous topic. Globalization: the Key Concepts offers a comprehensive guide to this cross-disciplinary subject and covers concepts such as: homogenization neo-Liberalism risk knowledge society time-space compression refle…
Chinese perceptions of Inner Circle varieties of English
Research from populations around the world on attitudes to varieties of English is essential in order to have a better understanding of how the complexities of globalization play a role in the form of English as a world language. To that end, university students in China were asked to name countries around the world where they believe English is spoken and indicate what kind of impression they have of those varieties without the presentation of v…
‘If we say English, that means America’
This paper reports the results of a survey of 101 Japanese university students' perceptions of different varieties of English using an open-ended questionnaire. Participants indicated their first impressions of varieties of English that they had named. This methodology allows participants themselves to provide the specific varieties as well as the evaluative categories and avoids problems associated with using voice stimuli while capturing the st…
Seattletonian" to "Faux Hick
This article describes a subset of data from a larger project investigating perceptions that Washington State residents have about English spoken in their state to explore dialect variation and the social and regional evaluation of it in this under-studied region. Respondents were asked to draw on a map of Washington the places where they believe people speak “differently” and to give a label for that way of speaking. The results indicate that re…
Everybody Sounds the Same
When analyzing dialectology survey data, researchers usually exclude respondents who do not complete the survey as directed. It is argued here that such “unusable” responses can be considered “outlier” data and analyzed rather than be excluded, allowing otherwise overlooked language ideologies to emerge. Responses to a perceptual dialectology map survey in which 31 of the 229 respondents wrote comments on a map of Washington state, without drawin…
The Effects of Age and Gender on the Perceptions of Linguistic Variation in the Qassimi Arabic Dialect
This article examines the effects of age and gender on perceptions that speakers of Qassimi Arabic, a variety of Najdi Arabic spoken in central Saudi Arabia, have of the placement and extent of dialect areas marked on hand-drawn maps representing variation within their own dialect. Analysis of composite maps of respondents' perceptions using a GIS mapping program (ArcGIS) reveals that both age and gender have an effect on respondents' perceptions…
Needed Research in Language Regard
Research Article| December 01 2023 13. Needed Research in Language Regard Betsy E. Evans; Betsy E. Evans betsy e. evans is associate professor of linguistics at the University of Washington. Her research concentrates on linguistic variation and how that relates to the function of language in marking identity, status, group solidarity, and cultural values and draws heavily on perceptions and attitudes to language variation. Email: [email protected]. …
Linguistics (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Perception (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works)