Allison Burkette
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 519067 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Allison Burkette |
| NOMBRES | Allison |
| APELLIDO | Burkette |
| FIRMA | BURKETTE A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Mississippi |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0262-5445 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Language, Material Culture, and Materiality in Appalachia
This article focuses on excerpts from interviews conducted with Appalachian speakers between 1999 and 2008 in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, examining the role played by objects in the construction of identity within interview interactions. Normally, as a sociolinguist, my research focuses on language use although more recently, I have considered material culture and its role in social meaning-making as well, combining consid…
The Linguistic Atlas Project in the Twenty-First Century
Research Article| December 01 2023 7. The Linguistic Atlas Project in the Twenty-First Century Allison Burkette Allison Burkette allison burkette is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Kentucky, where she currently serves as department chair and as the editor of the Linguistic Atlas Project. Her research interests include language variation and change, American English dialects (especially Appalachian Englishes), and…
Words that Archaeologists Choose
Writing is the means by which archaeological knowledge is produced, shared and negotiated, which is why, as part of a wider reflexive archaeology, writing within the discipline has come under scrutiny. When writing, archaeologists make choices about what words to use to express their ideas about the past (even if these choices are sometimes subconscious). This study examines such choices via the application of methods from two linguistic subdisci…
A-Prefixing in Linguistic Atlas Project Data
This article discusses the linguistic, social, and geographic distribution of a-prefixing data in the Linguistic Atlas Project (LAP) of North America. Over 3,800 instances of the a-prefix were extracted for analysis from the LAP interview data of 1,527 speakers from across the United States, collected between 1931 and 2006. While the LAP a-prefix data do not generally deviate from patterns observed in the sociolinguistic literature, they do offer…
Exploring Linguistic Science
Exploring Linguistic Science introduces students to the basic principles of complexity theory and then applies these principles to the scientific study of language. It demonstrates how, at every level of linguistic study, we find evidence of language as a complex system. Designed for undergraduate courses in language and linguistics, this essential textbook brings cutting-edge concepts to bear on the traditional components of general introduction…
To Start a Fire
This article offers a preliminary comparison of available data from three regional surveys of English: the Linguistic Atlas Project, the Survey of English Dialects, and the Linguistic Atlas of Scotland, taking as its focus the survey item ‘kindling’. Intended as a pilot study, the following discussion highlights the benefits and challenges of combining data from these surveys. This study suggests that a comparison of atlas-style survey data would…
Linguistic and object-based stance-taking in Appalachian interviews
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 p…
Constructing Identity
Constructing the (m)other
The present study examines two unprompted versions of the same story, related by a mother and daughter in separate sociolinguistic interviews. Following a quantitative intraspeaker comparison of their use of grammatical features associated with Appalachian English within the entirety of their interviews, this study undertakes a close reading of the narratives (along with additional passages from the daughter) to demonstrate the manner in which th…
Parlor Talk
The present discussion takes a historical perspective in addressing the relationship between language change and language variation, specifically, through an examination of language variation and its connection to the historical development of physical objects. This article will examine responses elicited by the linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States survey for the target item ‘parlor’, contextualizing these responses within the…
STAMPED Indian
Under consideration are two databases from the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States; one contains the responses to the ‘cornbread’ question, and the other the responses to the ‘other bread made of cornmeal’ question. Taken together, these databases offer a staggering 336 different terms used for cornbreads. The present work investigates the depth of this variation, looking first at the LAMSAS responses and then at the history …
The Lion, the Witch, and the Armoire
This article explores the vast amount of lexical variation in case furniture terms found within databases of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States and the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States as well as more recent picture-elicited survey data from Georgia and Mississippi. The history of case furniture is explored briefly in order to highlight the origins of some of the lexical variation found within the data. Also discussed…
Constructing identity
The Story of Chester Drawers
Research Article| May 01 2001 THE STORY OF CHESTER DRAWERS ALLISON BURKETTE ALLISON BURKETTE Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2001) 76 (2): 139–157. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-76-2-139 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation ALLISON BURKETTE; THE STORY OF CHESTER DRAWERS. American Speech 1 May 2001; 76 (2): 139–157. doi: https://doi.org/10.1…
The Story of Chester Drawers
Research Article| May 01 2001 THE STORY OF CHESTER DRAWERS ALLISON BURKETTE ALLISON BURKETTE Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2001) 76 (2): 139–157. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-76-2-139 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation ALLISON BURKETTE; THE STORY OF CHESTER DRAWERS. American Speech 1 May 2001; 76 (2): 139–157. doi: https://doi.org/10.1…
The Lion, the Witch, and the Armoire
This article explores the vast amount of lexical variation in case furniture terms found within databases of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States and the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States as well as more recent picture-elicited survey data from Georgia and Mississippi. The history of case furniture is explored briefly in order to highlight the origins of some of the lexical variation found within the data. Also discussed…
Constructing the (m)other
The present study examines two unprompted versions of the same story, related by a mother and daughter in separate sociolinguistic interviews. Following a quantitative intraspeaker comparison of their use of grammatical features associated with Appalachian English within the entirety of their interviews, this study undertakes a close reading of the narratives (along with additional passages from the daughter) to demonstrate the manner in which th…
Constructing identity
Linguistic and object-based stance-taking in Appalachian interviews
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 p…
STAMPED Indian
Under consideration are two databases from the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States; one contains the responses to the ‘cornbread’ question, and the other the responses to the ‘other bread made of cornmeal’ question. Taken together, these databases offer a staggering 336 different terms used for cornbreads. The present work investigates the depth of this variation, looking first at the LAMSAS responses and then at the history …
Parlor Talk
The present discussion takes a historical perspective in addressing the relationship between language change and language variation, specifically, through an examination of language variation and its connection to the historical development of physical objects. This article will examine responses elicited by the linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States survey for the target item ‘parlor’, contextualizing these responses within the…
Words that Archaeologists Choose
Writing is the means by which archaeological knowledge is produced, shared and negotiated, which is why, as part of a wider reflexive archaeology, writing within the discipline has come under scrutiny. When writing, archaeologists make choices about what words to use to express their ideas about the past (even if these choices are sometimes subconscious). This study examines such choices via the application of methods from two linguistic subdisci…
To Start a Fire
This article offers a preliminary comparison of available data from three regional surveys of English: the Linguistic Atlas Project, the Survey of English Dialects, and the Linguistic Atlas of Scotland, taking as its focus the survey item ‘kindling’. Intended as a pilot study, the following discussion highlights the benefits and challenges of combining data from these surveys. This study suggests that a comparison of atlas-style survey data would…
The Story of Chester Drawers
Research Article| May 01 2001 THE STORY OF CHESTER DRAWERS ALLISON BURKETTE ALLISON BURKETTE Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2001) 76 (2): 139–157. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-76-2-139 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation ALLISON BURKETTE; THE STORY OF CHESTER DRAWERS. American Speech 1 May 2001; 76 (2): 139–157. doi: https://doi.org/10.1…
Constructing identity
The Lion, the Witch, and the Armoire
This article explores the vast amount of lexical variation in case furniture terms found within databases of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States and the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States as well as more recent picture-elicited survey data from Georgia and Mississippi. The history of case furniture is explored briefly in order to highlight the origins of some of the lexical variation found within the data. Also discussed…
STAMPED Indian
Under consideration are two databases from the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States; one contains the responses to the ‘cornbread’ question, and the other the responses to the ‘other bread made of cornmeal’ question. Taken together, these databases offer a staggering 336 different terms used for cornbreads. The present work investigates the depth of this variation, looking first at the LAMSAS responses and then at the history …
Parlor Talk
The present discussion takes a historical perspective in addressing the relationship between language change and language variation, specifically, through an examination of language variation and its connection to the historical development of physical objects. This article will examine responses elicited by the linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States survey for the target item ‘parlor’, contextualizing these responses within the…
Constructing the (m)other
The present study examines two unprompted versions of the same story, related by a mother and daughter in separate sociolinguistic interviews. Following a quantitative intraspeaker comparison of their use of grammatical features associated with Appalachian English within the entirety of their interviews, this study undertakes a close reading of the narratives (along with additional passages from the daughter) to demonstrate the manner in which th…
Constructing Identity
Linguistic and object-based stance-taking in Appalachian interviews
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 p…
To Start a Fire
This article offers a preliminary comparison of available data from three regional surveys of English: the Linguistic Atlas Project, the Survey of English Dialects, and the Linguistic Atlas of Scotland, taking as its focus the survey item ‘kindling’. Intended as a pilot study, the following discussion highlights the benefits and challenges of combining data from these surveys. This study suggests that a comparison of atlas-style survey data would…
Exploring Linguistic Science
Exploring Linguistic Science introduces students to the basic principles of complexity theory and then applies these principles to the scientific study of language. It demonstrates how, at every level of linguistic study, we find evidence of language as a complex system. Designed for undergraduate courses in language and linguistics, this essential textbook brings cutting-edge concepts to bear on the traditional components of general introduction…
Words that Archaeologists Choose
Writing is the means by which archaeological knowledge is produced, shared and negotiated, which is why, as part of a wider reflexive archaeology, writing within the discipline has come under scrutiny. When writing, archaeologists make choices about what words to use to express their ideas about the past (even if these choices are sometimes subconscious). This study examines such choices via the application of methods from two linguistic subdisci…
A-Prefixing in Linguistic Atlas Project Data
This article discusses the linguistic, social, and geographic distribution of a-prefixing data in the Linguistic Atlas Project (LAP) of North America. Over 3,800 instances of the a-prefix were extracted for analysis from the LAP interview data of 1,527 speakers from across the United States, collected between 1931 and 2006. While the LAP a-prefix data do not generally deviate from patterns observed in the sociolinguistic literature, they do offer…
The Linguistic Atlas Project in the Twenty-First Century
Research Article| December 01 2023 7. The Linguistic Atlas Project in the Twenty-First Century Allison Burkette Allison Burkette allison burkette is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Kentucky, where she currently serves as department chair and as the editor of the Linguistic Atlas Project. Her research interests include language variation and change, American English dialects (especially Appalachian Englishes), and…
Language, Material Culture, and Materiality in Appalachia
This article focuses on excerpts from interviews conducted with Appalachian speakers between 1999 and 2008 in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, examining the role played by objects in the construction of identity within interview interactions. Normally, as a sociolinguist, my research focuses on language use although more recently, I have considered material culture and its role in social meaning-making as well, combining consid…
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