Derek Denis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 749503 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Derek Denis |
| NOMBRES | Derek |
| APELLIDO | Denis |
| FIRMA | DENIS D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1112-9083 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Settler Colonial Englishes
Colonialism is a broad term that encompasses a spectrum of sociopolitical realities for colonized peoples and places. An important distinction operates within this constellation, separating settler colonial states on the one hand from other colonial settings on the other. Linguistically, Settler Colonial Englishes are characterized by four aspects that set their evolutionary trajectories apart from those Englishes that emerge in other contexts. T…
Same script, different sway
American Speech
‘If ur from Toronto you’ll understand’
Multicultural Toronto English (MTE) is a register found in Toronto, Canada, associated with racialized youth. The ongoing enregisterment of MTE takes place, in part, through metadiscourse on social media, which disseminates the register to a wider audience. This article examines online metadiscursive engagement with representations of MTE. We consider how audiences take up, receive and recontextualize MTE through metadiscourse across grassroots a…
What I say, or how I say it? Ethnic accents and hiring evaluations in the Greater Toronto Area
1. RAW COUNTS FOR EVALUATIONS.Tables A1 through A8 present the content, expression, employability scores (raw, in percentage, and the median) and job interview recommendations (raw and in percentage) given to each voice, for both 'good' and 'bad' responses. Score
What I say, or how I say it? Ethnic accents and hiring evaluations in the Greater Toronto Area
This study investigated accent bias against job applicants with extralocal (non-Canadian) English accents in the Greater Toronto Area. Verbal guises recorded by British, Chinese, German, Indian, Jamaican, and Nigerian women and by Canadian women with at least one parent from these countries were evaluated by forty-eight human resources students, who rated the content of job interview responses and the candidates’ ‘expression’ and ‘employability’,…
Exploring the Vowel Space of Multicultural Toronto English
While multiethnolects have been documented in major European metropolises over the last several decades, no such varieties have been reported in North America. This is surprising given the high degree of global immigration in many North American cities. We consider Toronto, Ontario, one of the most multicultural cities in the world, and explore the features of a Multicultural Toronto English. Data comes from young people in an ethnolinguistically…
American Speech, Settler Colonialism, and a View from a Place Currently Called Canada
Be like and the Constant Rate Effect
The be like quotative emerged rapidly around the English-speaking world and has quickly saturated the quotative systems of young speakers in multiple countries. We study be like (and its covariants) in two communities – Toronto, Canada, and York, United Kingdom – in apparent time and at two separate points in real time. We trace the apparent-time trajectory of be like and its covariants from inception to saturation. We take advantage of the prodi…
Raptors Vs. Bucktees
Bucktee is one of several lexical items associated with ‘Toronto Slang’ – the emically-given name for an enregistered set of lexical items associated with Multicultural Toronto English (MTE), a multiethnolect spoken by young people in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), originating in the many and varied multicultural and multilingual areas of the conurbation – that is borrowed from Somali. This paper contextualises the influence of Somali on Toronto…
How Canadian was eh? A baseline investigation of usage and ideology
2 See Dollinger (2018) for a lexicographical history of eh. 3 These early works tend to contextualize the Canadian-ness of eh to particular uses, primarily in variation with pardon.However, its standalone use as a Peircean index of Canada in popular headlines and titles, such as Orkin's (1973) humour book Canajan, Eh? (see also Gold and Tremblay 2006: 260 and Dollinger and Fee's 2017 entry for eh, sense 5) and in the commodification of the lexeme…
Peaks and arrowheads of vernacular reorganization
A key component of Labov's (2001:411) socially motivated projection model of language change is the hypothesis that adolescents and preadolescents undergo a process of vernacular reorganization, which leads to a “seamless” progression of changes in progress. Between the ages of approximately five and 17, children and adolescents increase the “frequency, extent, scope, or specificity” of changes in progress along the community trajectory (Labov, 2…
Deriving Homogeneity in a Settler Colonial Variety of English
Canadian English (CanE) is argued to present a textbook example of dialectological homogeneity. Its largely undifferentiated urban structure is attributed to source input, as a consequence of a shared founder effect. This outcome is predicted by the sociohistorical realities of settler colonialism but remains unexplored in diachronic perspective. The recent construction of large diachronic corpora of regional CanE varieties enables direct compari…
Deconstructing variation in pragmatic function
Despite recent advances (e.g. Cheshire 2007; Pichler 2010; Denis 2015), discourse-pragmatic variables continue to challenge variationist theory and methods. An overarching dilemma concerns multifunctionality, raising difficulties for semantic equivalency and the circumscription of the variable context. In this article we present a case study to illustrate that deconstructing a discourse-pragmatic marker into its composite parts reveals clear crit…
Settler Colonial Englishes Are Distinct from Postcolonial Englishes
In this position paper, we take up David Deterding's 2008 call to think more carefully about the differences across varieties of English that have developed as a product of settler influence (e.g., Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, United States) versus those in which the Indigenous languages continue to influence lexis, phonology, morphosyntax, and discourse-pragmatics (e.g., India, Nigeria, Singapore). For us, this distinction is fundamentally…
Oral Histories as a Window to Sociolinguistic History and Language History
Archival oral histories provide sociolinguists with invaluable empirical insight, particularly with respect to studying vernaculars of the past. Because the goal of the oral history methodology is to capture authentic, first-person accounts, the recordings are comparable to sociolinguistic interviews. In this audio feature, the Farm Work and Farm Life Since 1890 Oral History project, which contains interviews with elderly farmers in Ontario, Cana…
Expanding the transmission/diffusion dichotomy
We present analyses of linguistic features undergoing change in South Eastern Ontario, Canada: stative possession, deontic modality, intensifiers, and quotatives. The largest urban center of the country (Toronto) and three towns outside the city are analyzed from the comparative sociolinguistic perspective. Parallel frequency and constraints are found in changes with a time depth of 200 years or more, corroborating the parallel transmission of co…
Linguistic Ruin? Lol! Instant Messaging and Teen Language
This article presents an analysis of Instant Messaging (IM), a one-to-one synchronous medium of computer-mediated communication. Innumerable articles in the popular press suggest that increasing use of IM by teens is leading to a breakdown in the English language. The analyses presented here are based on a unique corpus involving 72 teenagers and over a million words of natural, unmonitored IM. In addition, a corpus of speech from the same teenag…
Linguistic Ruin? Lol! Instant Messaging and Teen Language
This article presents an analysis of Instant Messaging (IM), a one-to-one synchronous medium of computer-mediated communication. Innumerable articles in the popular press suggest that increasing use of IM by teens is leading to a breakdown in the English language. The analyses presented here are based on a unique corpus involving 72 teenagers and over a million words of natural, unmonitored IM. In addition, a corpus of speech from the same teenag…
Settler Colonial Englishes Are Distinct from Postcolonial Englishes
In this position paper, we take up David Deterding's 2008 call to think more carefully about the differences across varieties of English that have developed as a product of settler influence (e.g., Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, United States) versus those in which the Indigenous languages continue to influence lexis, phonology, morphosyntax, and discourse-pragmatics (e.g., India, Nigeria, Singapore). For us, this distinction is fundamentally…
Expanding the transmission/diffusion dichotomy
We present analyses of linguistic features undergoing change in South Eastern Ontario, Canada: stative possession, deontic modality, intensifiers, and quotatives. The largest urban center of the country (Toronto) and three towns outside the city are analyzed from the comparative sociolinguistic perspective. Parallel frequency and constraints are found in changes with a time depth of 200 years or more, corroborating the parallel transmission of co…
Deriving Homogeneity in a Settler Colonial Variety of English
Canadian English (CanE) is argued to present a textbook example of dialectological homogeneity. Its largely undifferentiated urban structure is attributed to source input, as a consequence of a shared founder effect. This outcome is predicted by the sociohistorical realities of settler colonialism but remains unexplored in diachronic perspective. The recent construction of large diachronic corpora of regional CanE varieties enables direct compari…
American Speech, Settler Colonialism, and a View from a Place Currently Called Canada
Peaks and arrowheads of vernacular reorganization
A key component of Labov's (2001:411) socially motivated projection model of language change is the hypothesis that adolescents and preadolescents undergo a process of vernacular reorganization, which leads to a “seamless” progression of changes in progress. Between the ages of approximately five and 17, children and adolescents increase the “frequency, extent, scope, or specificity” of changes in progress along the community trajectory (Labov, 2…
Deconstructing variation in pragmatic function
Despite recent advances (e.g. Cheshire 2007; Pichler 2010; Denis 2015), discourse-pragmatic variables continue to challenge variationist theory and methods. An overarching dilemma concerns multifunctionality, raising difficulties for semantic equivalency and the circumscription of the variable context. In this article we present a case study to illustrate that deconstructing a discourse-pragmatic marker into its composite parts reveals clear crit…
What I say, or how I say it? Ethnic accents and hiring evaluations in the Greater Toronto Area
This study investigated accent bias against job applicants with extralocal (non-Canadian) English accents in the Greater Toronto Area. Verbal guises recorded by British, Chinese, German, Indian, Jamaican, and Nigerian women and by Canadian women with at least one parent from these countries were evaluated by forty-eight human resources students, who rated the content of job interview responses and the candidates’ ‘expression’ and ‘employability’,…
Oral Histories as a Window to Sociolinguistic History and Language History
Archival oral histories provide sociolinguists with invaluable empirical insight, particularly with respect to studying vernaculars of the past. Because the goal of the oral history methodology is to capture authentic, first-person accounts, the recordings are comparable to sociolinguistic interviews. In this audio feature, the Farm Work and Farm Life Since 1890 Oral History project, which contains interviews with elderly farmers in Ontario, Cana…
Linguistic Ruin? Lol! Instant Messaging and Teen Language
This article presents an analysis of Instant Messaging (IM), a one-to-one synchronous medium of computer-mediated communication. Innumerable articles in the popular press suggest that increasing use of IM by teens is leading to a breakdown in the English language. The analyses presented here are based on a unique corpus involving 72 teenagers and over a million words of natural, unmonitored IM. In addition, a corpus of speech from the same teenag…
Expanding the transmission/diffusion dichotomy
We present analyses of linguistic features undergoing change in South Eastern Ontario, Canada: stative possession, deontic modality, intensifiers, and quotatives. The largest urban center of the country (Toronto) and three towns outside the city are analyzed from the comparative sociolinguistic perspective. Parallel frequency and constraints are found in changes with a time depth of 200 years or more, corroborating the parallel transmission of co…
Oral Histories as a Window to Sociolinguistic History and Language History
Archival oral histories provide sociolinguists with invaluable empirical insight, particularly with respect to studying vernaculars of the past. Because the goal of the oral history methodology is to capture authentic, first-person accounts, the recordings are comparable to sociolinguistic interviews. In this audio feature, the Farm Work and Farm Life Since 1890 Oral History project, which contains interviews with elderly farmers in Ontario, Cana…
Deconstructing variation in pragmatic function
Despite recent advances (e.g. Cheshire 2007; Pichler 2010; Denis 2015), discourse-pragmatic variables continue to challenge variationist theory and methods. An overarching dilemma concerns multifunctionality, raising difficulties for semantic equivalency and the circumscription of the variable context. In this article we present a case study to illustrate that deconstructing a discourse-pragmatic marker into its composite parts reveals clear crit…
Settler Colonial Englishes Are Distinct from Postcolonial Englishes
In this position paper, we take up David Deterding's 2008 call to think more carefully about the differences across varieties of English that have developed as a product of settler influence (e.g., Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, United States) versus those in which the Indigenous languages continue to influence lexis, phonology, morphosyntax, and discourse-pragmatics (e.g., India, Nigeria, Singapore). For us, this distinction is fundamentally…
Peaks and arrowheads of vernacular reorganization
A key component of Labov's (2001:411) socially motivated projection model of language change is the hypothesis that adolescents and preadolescents undergo a process of vernacular reorganization, which leads to a “seamless” progression of changes in progress. Between the ages of approximately five and 17, children and adolescents increase the “frequency, extent, scope, or specificity” of changes in progress along the community trajectory (Labov, 2…
Deriving Homogeneity in a Settler Colonial Variety of English
Canadian English (CanE) is argued to present a textbook example of dialectological homogeneity. Its largely undifferentiated urban structure is attributed to source input, as a consequence of a shared founder effect. This outcome is predicted by the sociohistorical realities of settler colonialism but remains unexplored in diachronic perspective. The recent construction of large diachronic corpora of regional CanE varieties enables direct compari…
How Canadian was eh? A baseline investigation of usage and ideology
2 See Dollinger (2018) for a lexicographical history of eh. 3 These early works tend to contextualize the Canadian-ness of eh to particular uses, primarily in variation with pardon.However, its standalone use as a Peircean index of Canada in popular headlines and titles, such as Orkin's (1973) humour book Canajan, Eh? (see also Gold and Tremblay 2006: 260 and Dollinger and Fee's 2017 entry for eh, sense 5) and in the commodification of the lexeme…
Be like and the Constant Rate Effect
The be like quotative emerged rapidly around the English-speaking world and has quickly saturated the quotative systems of young speakers in multiple countries. We study be like (and its covariants) in two communities – Toronto, Canada, and York, United Kingdom – in apparent time and at two separate points in real time. We trace the apparent-time trajectory of be like and its covariants from inception to saturation. We take advantage of the prodi…
Raptors Vs. Bucktees
Bucktee is one of several lexical items associated with ‘Toronto Slang’ – the emically-given name for an enregistered set of lexical items associated with Multicultural Toronto English (MTE), a multiethnolect spoken by young people in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), originating in the many and varied multicultural and multilingual areas of the conurbation – that is borrowed from Somali. This paper contextualises the influence of Somali on Toronto…
American Speech, Settler Colonialism, and a View from a Place Currently Called Canada
Exploring the Vowel Space of Multicultural Toronto English
While multiethnolects have been documented in major European metropolises over the last several decades, no such varieties have been reported in North America. This is surprising given the high degree of global immigration in many North American cities. We consider Toronto, Ontario, one of the most multicultural cities in the world, and explore the features of a Multicultural Toronto English. Data comes from young people in an ethnolinguistically…
‘If ur from Toronto you’ll understand’
Multicultural Toronto English (MTE) is a register found in Toronto, Canada, associated with racialized youth. The ongoing enregisterment of MTE takes place, in part, through metadiscourse on social media, which disseminates the register to a wider audience. This article examines online metadiscursive engagement with representations of MTE. We consider how audiences take up, receive and recontextualize MTE through metadiscourse across grassroots a…
What I say, or how I say it? Ethnic accents and hiring evaluations in the Greater Toronto Area
1. RAW COUNTS FOR EVALUATIONS.Tables A1 through A8 present the content, expression, employability scores (raw, in percentage, and the median) and job interview recommendations (raw and in percentage) given to each voice, for both 'good' and 'bad' responses. Score
What I say, or how I say it? Ethnic accents and hiring evaluations in the Greater Toronto Area
This study investigated accent bias against job applicants with extralocal (non-Canadian) English accents in the Greater Toronto Area. Verbal guises recorded by British, Chinese, German, Indian, Jamaican, and Nigerian women and by Canadian women with at least one parent from these countries were evaluated by forty-eight human resources students, who rated the content of job interview responses and the candidates’ ‘expression’ and ‘employability’,…
American Speech
Settler Colonial Englishes
Colonialism is a broad term that encompasses a spectrum of sociopolitical realities for colonized peoples and places. An important distinction operates within this constellation, separating settler colonial states on the one hand from other colonial settings on the other. Linguistically, Settler Colonial Englishes are characterized by four aspects that set their evolutionary trajectories apart from those Englishes that emerge in other contexts. T…
Same script, different sway
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