James Cramer
Biographic Data
| ID | 124140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Cramer |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Cramer |
| SIGNATURE | CRAMER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7582-4571 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
American Speech: The Next 100 Years
Coalition Building and Food Insecurity: How an Equity and Justice Framework Guided a Viable Food Assistance Network
Food insecurity is widespread in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic intensified the need for food assistance and created opportunities for collaboration among historically-siloed organizations. Research has demonstrated the importance of coalition building and community organizing in Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) change and its potential to address equitable access to food, ultimately improving population health outcomes. In New …
Toward a Century of Language Attitudes Research: Looking Back and Moving Forward
The study of language attitudes is concerned with the social meanings people assign to language and its users. With roots in social psychology nearly a century ago, language attitudes research spans several academic disciplines and draws on diverse methodological approaches. In an attempt to integrate this work and traverse disciplinary boundaries and methodological proclivities, we propose that language attitudes—as a unified field—can be organi…
Mental maps and perceptual dialectology
Perceptual dialectology is the study of the thoughts, beliefs and attitudes that nonlinguists have about their dialect landscapes. The field foregrounds these perceptions which have been historically presumed to be of only peripheral significance in linguistic research. One of the most influential tools for studying the perceptions of nonlinguists has been the mental map task, in which participants are asked to indicate on a map where specific va…
Perceptions of Appalachian English in Kentucky
This paper examines how non-Appalachians in Kentucky position the varieties of English spoken in Appalachia. In examining the language attitudes held by Louisvillians, I highlight the extent to which stereotypes associated with Appalachia (i.e., ignorance, lack of education) are widely held and explore how urban Kentuckians distinguish themselves from Appalachians. The study utilizes the tools of perceptual dialectology to explore how non-Appalac…
Southernness and Our Linguistic Planets of Belief
This article explores the perceptions of the American South within a perceptual dialectology framework, guided by Sean Carroll’s metaphor PLANETS OF BELIEF: “Planets don’t sit on foundations; they hold themselves together in a self-reinforcing pattern. The same is true for beliefs: they aren’t (try as we may) founded on unimpeachable principles that can’t be questioned. Rather, whole systems of belief fit together with one another, in more or les…
An Optimality-Theoretic approach to dialect code-switching
Despite the numerous frameworks for analyzing patterns of code-switching (CS) in multilingual communities, previous analyses have lacked a thorough treatment of the universality of the functions of CS. A recent model (Bhatt and Bolonyai 2011) addresses this gap by presenting a framework that incorporates principles of Optimality Theory (OT) and offers a precise model in which the countless functions of CS are reduced to five meta-constraints, the…
A Primer on Linguistic Diversity in the United States
Book Review| November 01 2015 A Primer on Linguistic Diversity in the United States Language and Linguistic Diversity in the US: An Introduction. By Tamasi, Susan and Antieau, Lamont. New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. xix + 380. ISBN 978-0-415-80668-8; $140 (pbk $48.95) Jennifer Cramer; Jennifer Cramer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Benjamin Jones Benjamin Jones Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google A…
Styles, Stereotypes, and the South: Constructing Identities at the Linguistic Border
Where two dialect areas collide, one finds border regions, which serve as dynamic sites for identity construction. Louisville, Kentucky, in its position on the south side of the Ohio River, the geographical and political border between Kentucky and Indiana, is located at one such collision. While previous work in Louisville has demonstrated the border nature of the city, both in terms of linguistic production and perception, this article examines…
American English: History, Structure, and Usage by J ulie S. Amberg and Deborah J. Vause
Do we really want to be like them?’: Indexing Europeanness through pronominal use
This article is part of a larger project on language politics in the European Union (EU), with an empirical focus on questions concerning identity. Using Wortham’s (1996) deictic mapping technique, I examine how EU leaders position themselves with respect to a European identity through the use of pronouns. Using this discourse analytic framework, I show how, in a panel featuring leaders from current and prospective EU member states, a participant…
Kin Support and Family Stress: Two Sides to Early Childbearing and Support Networks
Family assistance helps many teenage or young unmarried mothers to cope with poverty and the challenges of childbearing. Kin support to young mothers, while beneficial, should not be romanticized. It also often entails conflict, stress, frustration, and disappointment due to interpersonal tensions, or conflicting interests, or relatives' limited ability to provide support. Nearly always the underlying issue is a discrepancy between the young moth…
The future role of technology in environmental management
Do we really want to be like them?’: Indexing Europeanness through pronominal use
This article is part of a larger project on language politics in the European Union (EU), with an empirical focus on questions concerning identity. Using Wortham’s (1996) deictic mapping technique, I examine how EU leaders position themselves with respect to a European identity through the use of pronouns. Using this discourse analytic framework, I show how, in a panel featuring leaders from current and prospective EU member states, a participant…
Styles, Stereotypes, and the South: Constructing Identities at the Linguistic Border
Where two dialect areas collide, one finds border regions, which serve as dynamic sites for identity construction. Louisville, Kentucky, in its position on the south side of the Ohio River, the geographical and political border between Kentucky and Indiana, is located at one such collision. While previous work in Louisville has demonstrated the border nature of the city, both in terms of linguistic production and perception, this article examines…
The future role of technology in environmental management
Southernness and Our Linguistic Planets of Belief
This article explores the perceptions of the American South within a perceptual dialectology framework, guided by Sean Carroll’s metaphor PLANETS OF BELIEF: “Planets don’t sit on foundations; they hold themselves together in a self-reinforcing pattern. The same is true for beliefs: they aren’t (try as we may) founded on unimpeachable principles that can’t be questioned. Rather, whole systems of belief fit together with one another, in more or les…
Mental maps and perceptual dialectology
Perceptual dialectology is the study of the thoughts, beliefs and attitudes that nonlinguists have about their dialect landscapes. The field foregrounds these perceptions which have been historically presumed to be of only peripheral significance in linguistic research. One of the most influential tools for studying the perceptions of nonlinguists has been the mental map task, in which participants are asked to indicate on a map where specific va…
An Optimality-Theoretic approach to dialect code-switching
Despite the numerous frameworks for analyzing patterns of code-switching (CS) in multilingual communities, previous analyses have lacked a thorough treatment of the universality of the functions of CS. A recent model (Bhatt and Bolonyai 2011) addresses this gap by presenting a framework that incorporates principles of Optimality Theory (OT) and offers a precise model in which the countless functions of CS are reduced to five meta-constraints, the…
The future role of technology in environmental management
Kin Support and Family Stress: Two Sides to Early Childbearing and Support Networks
Family assistance helps many teenage or young unmarried mothers to cope with poverty and the challenges of childbearing. Kin support to young mothers, while beneficial, should not be romanticized. It also often entails conflict, stress, frustration, and disappointment due to interpersonal tensions, or conflicting interests, or relatives' limited ability to provide support. Nearly always the underlying issue is a discrepancy between the young moth…
Do we really want to be like them?’: Indexing Europeanness through pronominal use
This article is part of a larger project on language politics in the European Union (EU), with an empirical focus on questions concerning identity. Using Wortham’s (1996) deictic mapping technique, I examine how EU leaders position themselves with respect to a European identity through the use of pronouns. Using this discourse analytic framework, I show how, in a panel featuring leaders from current and prospective EU member states, a participant…
American English: History, Structure, and Usage by J ulie S. Amberg and Deborah J. Vause
Styles, Stereotypes, and the South: Constructing Identities at the Linguistic Border
Where two dialect areas collide, one finds border regions, which serve as dynamic sites for identity construction. Louisville, Kentucky, in its position on the south side of the Ohio River, the geographical and political border between Kentucky and Indiana, is located at one such collision. While previous work in Louisville has demonstrated the border nature of the city, both in terms of linguistic production and perception, this article examines…
An Optimality-Theoretic approach to dialect code-switching
Despite the numerous frameworks for analyzing patterns of code-switching (CS) in multilingual communities, previous analyses have lacked a thorough treatment of the universality of the functions of CS. A recent model (Bhatt and Bolonyai 2011) addresses this gap by presenting a framework that incorporates principles of Optimality Theory (OT) and offers a precise model in which the countless functions of CS are reduced to five meta-constraints, the…
A Primer on Linguistic Diversity in the United States
Book Review| November 01 2015 A Primer on Linguistic Diversity in the United States Language and Linguistic Diversity in the US: An Introduction. By Tamasi, Susan and Antieau, Lamont. New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. xix + 380. ISBN 978-0-415-80668-8; $140 (pbk $48.95) Jennifer Cramer; Jennifer Cramer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Benjamin Jones Benjamin Jones Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google A…
Perceptions of Appalachian English in Kentucky
This paper examines how non-Appalachians in Kentucky position the varieties of English spoken in Appalachia. In examining the language attitudes held by Louisvillians, I highlight the extent to which stereotypes associated with Appalachia (i.e., ignorance, lack of education) are widely held and explore how urban Kentuckians distinguish themselves from Appalachians. The study utilizes the tools of perceptual dialectology to explore how non-Appalac…
Southernness and Our Linguistic Planets of Belief
This article explores the perceptions of the American South within a perceptual dialectology framework, guided by Sean Carroll’s metaphor PLANETS OF BELIEF: “Planets don’t sit on foundations; they hold themselves together in a self-reinforcing pattern. The same is true for beliefs: they aren’t (try as we may) founded on unimpeachable principles that can’t be questioned. Rather, whole systems of belief fit together with one another, in more or les…
Toward a Century of Language Attitudes Research: Looking Back and Moving Forward
The study of language attitudes is concerned with the social meanings people assign to language and its users. With roots in social psychology nearly a century ago, language attitudes research spans several academic disciplines and draws on diverse methodological approaches. In an attempt to integrate this work and traverse disciplinary boundaries and methodological proclivities, we propose that language attitudes—as a unified field—can be organi…
Mental maps and perceptual dialectology
Perceptual dialectology is the study of the thoughts, beliefs and attitudes that nonlinguists have about their dialect landscapes. The field foregrounds these perceptions which have been historically presumed to be of only peripheral significance in linguistic research. One of the most influential tools for studying the perceptions of nonlinguists has been the mental map task, in which participants are asked to indicate on a map where specific va…
Coalition Building and Food Insecurity: How an Equity and Justice Framework Guided a Viable Food Assistance Network
Food insecurity is widespread in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic intensified the need for food assistance and created opportunities for collaboration among historically-siloed organizations. Research has demonstrated the importance of coalition building and community organizing in Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) change and its potential to address equitable access to food, ultimately improving population health outcomes. In New …
American Speech: The Next 100 Years
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Perception (4 works) · Economics (3 works)