John Baugh
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 105116 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Baugh |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Baugh |
| FIRMA | BAUGH J |
| AFILIACIONES | Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 244 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Linguistic emancipation
The term linguistic emancipation embraces various interpretations. One relates to occasions where linguists have helped people overcome problems that are attributable to various linguistic calamities. Another pertinent vector relates to methodological innovations that extricate linguistic research from methodological confinement and that embrace new technologies to help advance our collective scientific mission. These alternative perspectives are…
Linguistic Profiling across International Geopolitical Landscapes
Voice recognition lies at the heart of linguistic profiling, a discriminatory practice whereby goods, services, or opportunities that might otherwise be available are denied to someone, typically sight unseen, based on the sound of their voice. The technology that faithfully recreates one's voice during phone conversations provides the basis on which nefarious, if not illegal, voice-derived discrimination occurs. These denials often go undetected…
Thinking with an Accent
Thinking with an Accent casts accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception shaping our global cultural economy. Theorizing accent as a mediatized object, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice, this volume invites readers to think with an accent-to practice a dialogical, multisensorial inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care
Thinking with an Accent
Cultural, and Critical Theory panel "Thinking, Making, and Doing with an Accent" (convened by Ragini and Reid Gómez), and the Global Anglophone Forum's "Accents of the Anglophone" panel at the 2023 MLA for welcoming us into their conversations, and for their terrific engagement with our work.As editors, the four of us have forged a tight bond.Co-editing an anthology and writing together, we have learned, is an exercise in trust.But trust, it turn…
African American Languages ( AAV , Aaev , Ebonics)
Language usage among African slave descendants has been analyzed by social scientists extensively since the 1960s, variously described as “Nonstandard Negro English,” “Black English Vernacular,” “African American (vernacular) English,” or “African American Language,” and “Ebonics.” The evolution of this terminology began with educational relevance, and also included the birth of variationist sociolinguistics. Unique historical circumstances combi…
Sociolinguistic evaluations of inequality
In this new contribution, John Baugh provides an analytical overview of how the field has addressed issues of power and inequality. Baugh addresses how both social hierarchies and the legal system affect the standing of different languages and their users. He then especially focuses on language use in relation to racial and gender dynamics, highlighting influential work that revealed and analyzed how language is used to make and deepen inequality…
Meaning-Less Differences
The present article compares and contrasts linguistic findings from longitudinal studies of low-income Americans derived from evidence of recorded family speech interactions. Hart and Risley (1995) employed research assistants who spent 1 hour per month observing language usage among families from different socioeconomic backgrounds in their homes for 2.5 years. Baugh (1983) spent 40 hours per week during seven consecutive summers between 1969 an…
Use and Misuse of Speech Diagnostics for African American Students
Many African American students have been tested using speech pathology diagnostics that are ill suited to their distinctive linguistic circumstances. Slave descendants of African origin share a unique linguistic heritage in contrast and comparison to every other immigrant group residing within America. In an effort to overcome the legacy of educational bias born of inappropriate speech diagnostics for Black students, this article begins with obse…
At Last
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Linguistic Contributions to the Advancement of Racial Justice Within and Beyond the African Diaspora
As a rule, linguistic diversity has little to do with racial diversity. However, studies in Africa, Europe, and North and South America have documented that standard and nonstandard dialects are often divided along socially and racially stratified lines. Results in this discussion grow from studies of linguistic profiling in France, South Africa, and the USA regarding the devaluation of Black Speech. Studies of housing discrimination against Blac…
Walt Wolfram & Erik R. Thomas , The development of African American English
Walt Wolfram & Erik R. Thomas , The development of African American English . Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. Pp. ix, 237. Pb $40.95. Wolfram and Thomas (W&T) have produced a meticulous study of African American English and its development, based on extensive fieldwork and ensuing linguistic analyses in Hyde County, North Carolina. W&T worked in collaboration with Elaine W. Green, Becky Childes, Dan Beckett, and Benjamin Torbert. Any student of African …
It Ain't About Race
While most Americans agree that government officials failed to act promptly to provide food, water, shelter, and other relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, they disagree about the racial relevance of this negligence. Nevertheless, the unavoidable images of the storm's disproportionately high number of African American victims among those unable to flee a foretold disaster brought into view the specter of racial inequality. While most theor…
Featured Article
Commentary on the Following PublicationsMcWhorter, John H.,Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. New York: Free Press, 2000, 285 pages, ISBN 0 684 83669 6, $24.00.McWhorter, John H.,Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority. New York: Gotham Books, 2003, 264 pages, ISBN 1 59240 001 9, $25.00
Beyond Ebonics
The media frenzy surrounding the 1996 resolution by the Oakland School Board brought public attention to the term "Ebonics". However, the idea remains a mystery to most. John Baugh, a well-known African-American linguist and education expert, offers an accessible explanation of the origins of the term, the linguistic reality behind the hype, and the politics behind the outcry on both sides of the debate. Using a non-technical, first-person style,…
Out of the Mouths of Slaves
Orientation 1. Some Common Misconceptions about African American Vernacular English 2. Language and Race: Some Implications of Bias for Linguistic Science Part 2. The Relevance of African American Vernacular English to Education and Social Policies 3. Why What Works Has Not Worked for Nontraditional Students 4. Reading, Writing, and Rap: Lyric Shuffle and Other Motivational Strategies to Introduce and Reinforce Literacy 5. Educational Malpractice…
Racial Identification by Speech
Research Article| November 01 2000 RACIAL IDENTIFICATION BY SPEECH JOHN BAUGH JOHN BAUGH Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (4): 362–364. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-4-362 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation JOHN BAUGH; RACIAL IDENTIFICATION BY SPEECH. American Speech 1 November 2000; 75 (4): 362–364. doi: https://doi.org/10.121…
Towards a Social Science of Language
Labov's early formulation of importance of evaluation in narrative (1972: 366-375) stimulated investigation of evaluation in storytelling by a wide range of scholars, including folklorists (Bauman 1975:290-234; Robinson 1981), linguists (Polanyi 1979), and anthropologists (Watson 1973). Labov argued that evaluation, means by which narrator indicates the point of naITative, its raison d'etre: why it was told, and what narrator is getting at was pe…
Perceptual and Phonetic Experiments on American English Dialect Identification
The ability to discern the use of a nonstandard dialect is often enough information to also determine the speaker's ethnicity, and speakers may consequently suffer discrimination based on their speech. This article, detailing four experiments, shows that housing discrimination based solely on telephone conversations occurs, dialect identification is possible using the word hello, and phonetic correlates of dialect can be discovered. In one experi…
Towards a Social Science of Language
This is a two-volume collection of original research papers designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the impact that William Labov has had on linguistic science. Four areas of 'Labovian' linguistics are addressed: First is the study of variation and change; the papers in sections I and II of the first volume take this as their central theme, with a focus on either the social context and uses of language (I) or on the the internal linguistic d…
The Emergence of Black English
The Emergence of Black English: Text and Commentary. Guy Bailey. Natalie Maynor. and Patricia Cukor‐Avila. eds. Creole Language Library. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1991. 352 pp. $70.00 (cloth
Erving Goffman
REVIEWS833 F draws implications from the Tshernovits Conference that will prove valuable for linguists and others apprehensive about the outlook for what a recent issue ??Language called 'endangered languages' (Hale et al. 1992). Tshernovits tells a cautionary tale for linguists resolved to see a threatened language endure. After reading YTL, I found that a phrase kept insinuating itself into my thoughts as I arranged them for this review: ? decl…
Erving Goffman
Hypocorrection
The Politicization of Changing Terms of Self-Reference among American Slave Descendants
California, a targeted random telephone survey, political pundits, and other minority scholars. The discussion draws on sociological studies of changing racial attitudes (Bobo 1983, Fairbaugh and Davis 1988, Sears et al. 1979, and Shuman et al. 1985) and variable perceptions of racial and ethnographic boundaries. As one who began to reintroduce the term African American before the Rev. Jesse Jackson formally called for this adoption (Baugh 1988),…
Southern Sociolinguistic Perspectives in Black and White
Language in use
Perceptual and Phonetic Experiments on American English Dialect Identification
The ability to discern the use of a nonstandard dialect is often enough information to also determine the speaker's ethnicity, and speakers may consequently suffer discrimination based on their speech. This article, detailing four experiments, shows that housing discrimination based solely on telephone conversations occurs, dialect identification is possible using the word hello, and phonetic correlates of dialect can be discovered. In one experi…
The Politicization of Changing Terms of Self-Reference among American Slave Descendants
California, a targeted random telephone survey, political pundits, and other minority scholars. The discussion draws on sociological studies of changing racial attitudes (Bobo 1983, Fairbaugh and Davis 1988, Sears et al. 1979, and Shuman et al. 1985) and variable perceptions of racial and ethnographic boundaries. As one who began to reintroduce the term African American before the Rev. Jesse Jackson formally called for this adoption (Baugh 1988),…
Racial Identification by Speech
Research Article| November 01 2000 RACIAL IDENTIFICATION BY SPEECH JOHN BAUGH JOHN BAUGH Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (4): 362–364. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-4-362 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation JOHN BAUGH; RACIAL IDENTIFICATION BY SPEECH. American Speech 1 November 2000; 75 (4): 362–364. doi: https://doi.org/10.121…
Thinking with an Accent
Cultural, and Critical Theory panel "Thinking, Making, and Doing with an Accent" (convened by Ragini and Reid Gómez), and the Global Anglophone Forum's "Accents of the Anglophone" panel at the 2023 MLA for welcoming us into their conversations, and for their terrific engagement with our work.As editors, the four of us have forged a tight bond.Co-editing an anthology and writing together, we have learned, is an exercise in trust.But trust, it turn…
Hypocorrection
Steady
of steady has been observed not only throughout the United States, but in Caribbean varieties of English as well. These attestations, by leading Creole scholars, lend support to the viability of the Creole origin hypothesis for BVE, although the precise history of steady reflects several stages of development. Steady represents an excellent example of how some BVE lexicon preserves unique qualities in the face of overwhelming similarities between…
Thinking with an Accent
Thinking with an Accent casts accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception shaping our global cultural economy. Theorizing accent as a mediatized object, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice, this volume invites readers to think with an accent-to practice a dialogical, multisensorial inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care
Linguistic Contributions to the Advancement of Racial Justice Within and Beyond the African Diaspora
As a rule, linguistic diversity has little to do with racial diversity. However, studies in Africa, Europe, and North and South America have documented that standard and nonstandard dialects are often divided along socially and racially stratified lines. Results in this discussion grow from studies of linguistic profiling in France, South Africa, and the USA regarding the devaluation of Black Speech. Studies of housing discrimination against Blac…
It Ain't About Race
While most Americans agree that government officials failed to act promptly to provide food, water, shelter, and other relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, they disagree about the racial relevance of this negligence. Nevertheless, the unavoidable images of the storm's disproportionately high number of African American victims among those unable to flee a foretold disaster brought into view the specter of racial inequality. While most theor…
Linguistic Profiling across International Geopolitical Landscapes
Voice recognition lies at the heart of linguistic profiling, a discriminatory practice whereby goods, services, or opportunities that might otherwise be available are denied to someone, typically sight unseen, based on the sound of their voice. The technology that faithfully recreates one's voice during phone conversations provides the basis on which nefarious, if not illegal, voice-derived discrimination occurs. These denials often go undetected…
Featured Article
Commentary on the Following PublicationsMcWhorter, John H.,Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America. New York: Free Press, 2000, 285 pages, ISBN 0 684 83669 6, $24.00.McWhorter, John H.,Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority. New York: Gotham Books, 2003, 264 pages, ISBN 1 59240 001 9, $25.00
Sociolinguistic evaluations of inequality
In this new contribution, John Baugh provides an analytical overview of how the field has addressed issues of power and inequality. Baugh addresses how both social hierarchies and the legal system affect the standing of different languages and their users. He then especially focuses on language use in relation to racial and gender dynamics, highlighting influential work that revealed and analyzed how language is used to make and deepen inequality…
Language in Use
Black English
Runnin' down Some Lines
Black Street Speech
Language in use
Steady
of steady has been observed not only throughout the United States, but in Caribbean varieties of English as well. These attestations, by leading Creole scholars, lend support to the viability of the Creole origin hypothesis for BVE, although the precise history of steady reflects several stages of development. Steady represents an excellent example of how some BVE lexicon preserves unique qualities in the face of overwhelming similarities between…
Black Street Speech
Preface 1. Introduction: Street Speech as a Social Dialect 2. The Birth of Black Street Speech 3. Street Speech and Formal Speech: Linguistic Survival in Black and White Societies 4. The Scholar and the Street: Collecting the Data 5. Specialized Lexical Marking and Alternation Code Switching versus Style Shifting Topic-Related Shifting Syllable Contraction and Expansion Variable Forestressing of Bisyllabic Words Hypercorrection Lexical Summary 6.…
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Linguistic Anthropology
Language in Use
Language of Inequality
A Who's Who of Sociolinguistics
Southern Sociolinguistic Perspectives in Black and White
Communicating Racism
Why What Works Hasn't Worked for Nontraditional Students
In 1986 Secretary of Education William J. Bennett directed his staff to assemble condensed booklet on public titled What Works.2 He characterized the effort as a distillation of large body of scholarly research in the field of education (p. v); however, those of us who have devoted our lives and research to the goals of educational parity will find very little in the way of useful information for nontraditional students. One would hope, or perhap…
The Politicization of Changing Terms of Self-Reference among American Slave Descendants
California, a targeted random telephone survey, political pundits, and other minority scholars. The discussion draws on sociological studies of changing racial attitudes (Bobo 1983, Fairbaugh and Davis 1988, Sears et al. 1979, and Shuman et al. 1985) and variable perceptions of racial and ethnographic boundaries. As one who began to reintroduce the term African American before the Rev. Jesse Jackson formally called for this adoption (Baugh 1988),…
Erving Goffman
REVIEWS833 F draws implications from the Tshernovits Conference that will prove valuable for linguists and others apprehensive about the outlook for what a recent issue ??Language called 'endangered languages' (Hale et al. 1992). Tshernovits tells a cautionary tale for linguists resolved to see a threatened language endure. After reading YTL, I found that a phrase kept insinuating itself into my thoughts as I arranged them for this review: ? decl…
Erving Goffman
Hypocorrection
The Emergence of Black English
The Emergence of Black English: Text and Commentary. Guy Bailey. Natalie Maynor. and Patricia Cukor‐Avila. eds. Creole Language Library. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1991. 352 pp. $70.00 (cloth
Towards a Social Science of Language
This is a two-volume collection of original research papers designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the impact that William Labov has had on linguistic science. Four areas of 'Labovian' linguistics are addressed: First is the study of variation and change; the papers in sections I and II of the first volume take this as their central theme, with a focus on either the social context and uses of language (I) or on the the internal linguistic d…
Towards a Social Science of Language
Labov's early formulation of importance of evaluation in narrative (1972: 366-375) stimulated investigation of evaluation in storytelling by a wide range of scholars, including folklorists (Bauman 1975:290-234; Robinson 1981), linguists (Polanyi 1979), and anthropologists (Watson 1973). Labov argued that evaluation, means by which narrator indicates the point of naITative, its raison d'etre: why it was told, and what narrator is getting at was pe…
Perceptual and Phonetic Experiments on American English Dialect Identification
The ability to discern the use of a nonstandard dialect is often enough information to also determine the speaker's ethnicity, and speakers may consequently suffer discrimination based on their speech. This article, detailing four experiments, shows that housing discrimination based solely on telephone conversations occurs, dialect identification is possible using the word hello, and phonetic correlates of dialect can be discovered. In one experi…
Beyond Ebonics
The media frenzy surrounding the 1996 resolution by the Oakland School Board brought public attention to the term "Ebonics". However, the idea remains a mystery to most. John Baugh, a well-known African-American linguist and education expert, offers an accessible explanation of the origins of the term, the linguistic reality behind the hype, and the politics behind the outcry on both sides of the debate. Using a non-technical, first-person style,…
Out of the Mouths of Slaves
Orientation 1. Some Common Misconceptions about African American Vernacular English 2. Language and Race: Some Implications of Bias for Linguistic Science Part 2. The Relevance of African American Vernacular English to Education and Social Policies 3. Why What Works Has Not Worked for Nontraditional Students 4. Reading, Writing, and Rap: Lyric Shuffle and Other Motivational Strategies to Introduce and Reinforce Literacy 5. Educational Malpractice…
Racial Identification by Speech
Research Article| November 01 2000 RACIAL IDENTIFICATION BY SPEECH JOHN BAUGH JOHN BAUGH Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (4): 362–364. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-4-362 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation JOHN BAUGH; RACIAL IDENTIFICATION BY SPEECH. American Speech 1 November 2000; 75 (4): 362–364. doi: https://doi.org/10.121…
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