Paul Carter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Carter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Carter |
| SIGNATURE | CARTER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1884-9988 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 324 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Teaching Linguistics in Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Research Article| August 01 2023 Teaching Linguistics in Hispanic-Serving Institutions Phillip M. Carter; Phillip M. Carter Florida International University phillip m. carter is Professor of Linguistics and English at Florida International University, where he is also director of the Center for Humanities in an Urban Environment. Carter is author of dozens of articles on topics related to language diversity in the United States, bilingualism and …
Where there are no islands
In Their Own Write
Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves negotiated the New Poor Law and its measures, and how their interactions with the state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. Based on first-hand testimony – pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates – In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history.
Promoting innovation while controlling cost
New technologies, including pharmaceuticals and medical devices, can improve treatment options in healthcare but also bring concerns about rising healthcare costs. We undertake a narrative review of the United Kingdom's (UK) approach to appraising new health technologies. We find that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) and All Wales Medicines Strategy Group (AWMSG) have contributed to…
Prelude
This is a personal history of the intersection of colonial anthropology, creative practice and migrant ethnography. By way of setting the scene, I refer to Vincenzo Volentieri, a hoax ‘genius’ I invented for the 200th anniversary of Australia’s white colonisation: Volentieri is a parody of migrant precarity and creative resourcefulness, uniting mishearing, mimicry, multiple role-play and a constitutional reluctance to settle down (and in) to sugg…
Story lines
If migration recapitulates colonisation, migrants live like the rest of white Australia in a dream world where Aboriginal sovereignty is denied: across the divide of incommensurable realities, belonging is ethically impossible. Learning how to belong involves a critical reinterpretation of colonial anthropology (and its non-relations). It demands a creative migrant ethnography able to embrace coming from elsewhere as the foundation of arrival. Bu…
Translations, an autoethnography
Translations is a personal history written at the intersection of colonial anthropology, creative practice and migrant ethnography. Renowned postcolonial scholar, public artist and radio maker, UK-born Paul Carter documents and discusses a prodigiously varied and original trajectory of writing, sound installation and public space dramaturgy produced in Australia to present the phenomenon of contemporary migration in an entirely new light. Rejecti…
Internal Life
Performance Research Book’s book, Absolute Rhythm: Works for minor radio, collects ten of my radiophonic scripts written and broadcast in Australia mainly between 1986 and 1998. This article describes the cultural milieu in which they emerged. It argues that an upsurge of interest in a migrant writing that went ‘beyond the echo’ of Anglo-Australian writing coincided with a proliferation of historical ethnographical publications illuminating Abori…
New Dialect Formation Through Language Contact
The situation of sustained contact between Spanish and English in Miami during the past half century provides a rare opportunity to study contact-induced language change in an ecological context in which speakers of the immigrant language (i.e., Spanish) have become the numerical majority. The study reported here is designed to track the phonetic and prosodic influences of Spanish on the variety of English emerging among second-generation Miami-b…
Forgotten fields
The map and underlying geodatabase presented here at a scale of 1:25,000 (Main map) covers approximately 300 km2 of the catchment of the lower Rother valley in West Sussex, within the South Downs National Park, southern England. It offers a unique view of land use based on the Tithe Surveys created during the early part of 1840s. This new and rigorously compiled empirical material serves as an exceptionally robust research resource to inform rive…
Punishing paupers? Control, discipline and mental health in the Southwell workhouse (1836–71)
This article focuses on the way that staff and guardians in the rural Nottinghamshire workhouse of Southwell sought to exert control and containment over pauper inmates. Fusing together local and central records for the period 1834–71, including locally held punishment books and correspondence at The National Archives, Kew (TNA), we argue that the notional power of the workhouse authorities was heavily shaded. Most paupers most of the time did no…
A Volume for Our Times
Book Review| May 01 2019 A Volume for Our Times Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas about Race Edited by Alim, H. Samy; Rickford, John R.; Ball, Arnetha F.New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. vii + 362. ISBN 9780190625696; $35.95 (ebk $24.99) Phillip M. Carter Phillip M. Carter Florida International University PHILLIP M. carter is associate professor of linguistics and English at Florida International University, where he is a…
The social meaning of Spanish in Miami
Natural phonetic tendencies and social meaning
The existence of an allophonic split between raised onsets before voiceless consonants and more open onsets in other environments is well-established for the vowels in the price lexical set. It has also been observed—less frequently—for the vowels in the mouth lexical set. We provide evidence of this allophonic raising split in the English spoken on the Isles of Scilly (a group of islands off the southwest coast of England) where the pattern is m…
Exposure
A diary kept during the development of Sugar, a commission of the Liverpool Capital of Culture Festival (2006–2007), was the occasion of an autoethnography. This essay reflects on the triangulation made between the architecture of slavery, contemporary discourses of ‘youth culture’ and the dissolution of the representational frame as thematics or topics liquefied into the repressed topology of the city; a direct analogy is made between the famous…
Contemporary Publics
If the twentieth century has been dominated by discussions of the public, public life, and the public sphere, Contemporary Publics argues that, in the twenty-first century, we must complicate the sing
Tropical Knowledge
The focus of this address is on the potential of tropical geographies to inform and transform western epistemologies. The Humboldt brothers establish an identification of the tropics with (simultaneously) the origin of evolutionary development and its finest, most diversified realisation. In contrast, an imperial overlay of continentally imagined national territories has, particularly in the Indonesian, Malaysian and Philippine archipelago, impos…
Lines
Lips in Language and Space
W hat happens when you try to understand where someone else lives? You want to give a sympathetic account of the environment they inhabit. You recognize that any representation of the place where they live, work, and die will reflect inherited conventions of classification, and that these will naturally foreground elements, experiences, and relationships considered vital in their practical philosophy for maintaining life and procuring well-being.…
Dialect contact and distinctiveness
In this paper, we analyse linguistic variables which are well‐established in British English, the vowels in the trap and bath lexical sets. We demonstrate that the social meanings of these variables are both historically substantiated and locally‐elaborated. Our data is taken from the speech of individuals living on the Isles of Scilly, a group of islands off the south‐west coast of England. Our initial analysis shows that trap and bath variants …
Critical Language Study and Modern English Grammar in Context
Review Article| May 01 2015 Critical Language Study and Modern English Grammar in Context Phillip M. Carter Phillip M. Carter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2015) 90 (2): 246–266. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3130357 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Phillip M. Carter; Critical Language Study and Modern English Grammar in Context. American Speech 1 May 2015; 9…
Australindia
A tradition of imperial geographical fantasy fuses India and Australia. This paper discusses the strategic role these utopian proposals played in imperial erotics, in aiding the foundational ambition of empire, which is to connect. The proponents of these geographical hybrids (T.J. Maslen, W. Pickering and Thomas Livingston Mitchell) occupied very different positions in Greater Britain's colonial administration and the minority knowledges represe…
Joseph Bramley of East Stoke, Nottinghamshire
Joseph Bramley, of East Stoke in Nottinghamshire, fell on hard times during the closing stages of the ‘crusade against outdoor relief’. The Crusade roughly spanned the last three decades of the 19th century. In those poor law unions where the Crusade was adopted, a new and unforgiving environment was established in which pauperism was to be managed rigorously, ruthlessly and heartlessly. Moreover, the Crusade seriously affected the lives of many …
Pressure
Pressure is a typical symptom of city living. The cultural permutations of the concept of a continuous force applied to a body can be followed in the range of explanatory metaphors that use it. Terms like expression, impression, oppression and repression have wide currency across the human sciences. The deployment of such terms as if they were explanatory suggests that such disciplinary domains as urban sociology, environmental aesthetics and cog…
Timing and tempo in spontaneous phonological error repair
Segmented assimilation and minority cultures of mobility
Recent work on second-generation immigrants posits that racial discrimination and a restructuring economy are likely to create different paths of assimilation for recent non-white immigrants than earlier European immigrants followed, and may even decouple acculturation and economic mobility. But while these discussions have considered the minority lower class as a possible destination for assimilation, middle-class minorities have been largely ig…
The Road to Botany Bay
This book, first published in 1987 and considered a classic in the field of cultural and historical geography, examines the poetic constitution of colonial society. Through a far-reaching exploration of Australia’s mapping, narrative description, early urbanism, and bush mythology, this book exposes the mythopoetic mechanisms of empire. A powerfully written account of the ways in which language, history, and geography influenced the territorial t…
Inscribed Landscapes
Emerging Hispanic English
Although stable Hispanic populations have existed in some regions of the United States for centuries, other regions, including the mid-Atlantic South, are just experiencing the emergence of permanent Hispanic communities. This situation offers an ideal opportunity to examine the dynamics of new dialect formation in progress, and the extent to which speakers acquire local dialect traits as they learn English as a second language. We focus on the p…
F2 variation in Newcastle and Leeds English liquid systems
In this paper we present a production study designed to explore the relationship between three observations which have previously been made about liquids in British English: first, that laterals have prosodically-determined ‘clear’ (syllable-initial) and ‘dark’ (syllable-final) variants; second, that some varieties of English have either clear [1] in all positions or dark [l] in all positions; third, that some varieties with clear [1] have dark […
New Dialect Formation Through Language Contact
The situation of sustained contact between Spanish and English in Miami during the past half century provides a rare opportunity to study contact-induced language change in an ecological context in which speakers of the immigrant language (i.e., Spanish) have become the numerical majority. The study reported here is designed to track the phonetic and prosodic influences of Spanish on the variety of English emerging among second-generation Miami-b…
The social meaning of Spanish in Miami
Shared spaces, shared structures
This study examines the appropriation of grammatical structures of African American English ( AAE ) by adolescent Latinos attending a multi‐ethnic middle school in North Carolina. The study couples quantitative variationist analysis of four ‘core’ grammatical features of AAE (invariant be , copula deletion, past‐tense copula leveling, and third‐person singular – s absence) with the findings of an ethnographic study of Latino adolescent identity i…
Dialect contact and distinctiveness
In this paper, we analyse linguistic variables which are well‐established in British English, the vowels in the trap and bath lexical sets. We demonstrate that the social meanings of these variables are both historically substantiated and locally‐elaborated. Our data is taken from the speech of individuals living on the Isles of Scilly, a group of islands off the south‐west coast of England. Our initial analysis shows that trap and bath variants …
Timing and tempo in spontaneous phonological error repair
Tropical Knowledge
The focus of this address is on the potential of tropical geographies to inform and transform western epistemologies. The Humboldt brothers establish an identification of the tropics with (simultaneously) the origin of evolutionary development and its finest, most diversified realisation. In contrast, an imperial overlay of continentally imagined national territories has, particularly in the Indonesian, Malaysian and Philippine archipelago, impos…
Pressure
Pressure is a typical symptom of city living. The cultural permutations of the concept of a continuous force applied to a body can be followed in the range of explanatory metaphors that use it. Terms like expression, impression, oppression and repression have wide currency across the human sciences. The deployment of such terms as if they were explanatory suggests that such disciplinary domains as urban sociology, environmental aesthetics and cog…
Teaching Linguistics in Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Research Article| August 01 2023 Teaching Linguistics in Hispanic-Serving Institutions Phillip M. Carter; Phillip M. Carter Florida International University phillip m. carter is Professor of Linguistics and English at Florida International University, where he is also director of the Center for Humanities in an Urban Environment. Carter is author of dozens of articles on topics related to language diversity in the United States, bilingualism and …
Punishing paupers? Control, discipline and mental health in the Southwell workhouse (1836–71)
This article focuses on the way that staff and guardians in the rural Nottinghamshire workhouse of Southwell sought to exert control and containment over pauper inmates. Fusing together local and central records for the period 1834–71, including locally held punishment books and correspondence at The National Archives, Kew (TNA), we argue that the notional power of the workhouse authorities was heavily shaded. Most paupers most of the time did no…
Critical Language Study and Modern English Grammar in Context
Review Article| May 01 2015 Critical Language Study and Modern English Grammar in Context Phillip M. Carter Phillip M. Carter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2015) 90 (2): 246–266. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3130357 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Phillip M. Carter; Critical Language Study and Modern English Grammar in Context. American Speech 1 May 2015; 9…
Violent passages
A Howells' Letter
Mark Twain
The Spiritual Crisis of the Gilded Age
James Russell Lowell
Book Review| July 01 1972 James Russell Lowell: Portrait of a Many-Sided Man by Edward Wagenknecht James Russell Lowell: Portrait of a Many-Sided Man. By Wagenknecht, Edward. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. 276 pp. $7.50. Paul Carter Paul Carter University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1972) 71 (3): 441–442. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-71-3-441 Cite Icon Cite Share I…
The Road to Botany Bay
An account of how Australia originated in the acts of settlement, possession and dispossession by explorers who travelled, named and wrote. The author advances a notion of imperialism with relevance to other regions of the world
Culture of coincidence
(1990). Culture of coincidence: Notes on a performance piece called ‘mirror states’. Continuum: Vol. 3, Space, Meaning, Politics, pp. 115-126
Violent passages
Speaking Pantomimes
The Calling to Come , a stereo-mix sound installation commissioned by the Museum of Sydney, represents an innovative approach to the performance of primary historical sources. The script, derived from the William Dawes language notebooks (1790–1792), explores the ambiguities of cross-cultural communication under colonialism. The work exploits the echoic mimicry characteristic of such situations. The technique of scripting, style of direction and …
Clerical Polemic in Defence of Ministers' Maintenance During the English Reformation
Preaching before parliament in April 1571, the bishop of London, Edwin Sandys, lamented the low popular esteem which clergy enjoyed in the England of his own time, which encouraged the gospel message to be undervalued or ignored. Lay greed impoverished the Church, depriving God's ministers of their lawful maintenance. Little had changed since the break with Rome, when the crown and laymen began to secularise the church's lands and revenues in the…
Segmented assimilation and minority cultures of mobility
Recent work on second-generation immigrants posits that racial discrimination and a restructuring economy are likely to create different paths of assimilation for recent non-white immigrants than earlier European immigrants followed, and may even decouple acculturation and economic mobility. But while these discussions have considered the minority lower class as a possible destination for assimilation, middle-class minorities have been largely ig…
Books
Australian Feminism: A Companion. Edited by Barbara Caine, Moira Gatens, Emma Grahame, Jan Larbalestier, Sophie Watson and Elizabeth Webby. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxix + 607. $87.50 cloth. The Imaginary Australian: Anglo‐Celts and Identity, 1788 to the Present By Miriam Dixson. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999. Pp. viii + 216. $27.95 paper. Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism. By Marilyn Lake.…
Enclosure, waged labour and the formation of class consciousness
Inscribed Landscapes
Emerging Hispanic English
Although stable Hispanic populations have existed in some regions of the United States for centuries, other regions, including the mid-Atlantic South, are just experiencing the emergence of permanent Hispanic communities. This situation offers an ideal opportunity to examine the dynamics of new dialect formation in progress, and the extent to which speakers acquire local dialect traits as they learn English as a second language. We focus on the p…
Public Space
Drawing on William Dawes’ unpublished notebooks on the Indigenous languages spoken around Sydney Cove at the time of white settlement, this article hopes to provoke critical reflection on the limits of the law. Dawes’ record of communication with Patyegarang documents a transaction that was both political and erotic, both about the law and in defiance of it. In performances that were gestural as well as verbal, they marked out a middle ground whe…
F2 variation in Newcastle and Leeds English liquid systems
In this paper we present a production study designed to explore the relationship between three observations which have previously been made about liquids in British English: first, that laterals have prosodically-determined ‘clear’ (syllable-initial) and ‘dark’ (syllable-final) variants; second, that some varieties of English have either clear [1] in all positions or dark [l] in all positions; third, that some varieties with clear [1] have dark […
The Road to Botany Bay
This book, first published in 1987 and considered a classic in the field of cultural and historical geography, examines the poetic constitution of colonial society. Through a far-reaching exploration of Australia’s mapping, narrative description, early urbanism, and bush mythology, this book exposes the mythopoetic mechanisms of empire. A powerfully written account of the ways in which language, history, and geography influenced the territorial t…
A Treatise on “Multiculturalism” and Education
Review Article| May 01 2011 A TREATISE ON “MULTICULTURALISM” AND Education:language Diversity in the Classroom A TREATISE ON “MULTICULTURALISM” AND EDUCATION: Language Diversity in the Classroom By Edwards, JohnBristol, U.K.: Multilingual Matters, 2010. Pp. iv + 338. ISBN: 978-1-84769-226-9; $129.95 (pbk $49.95) Phillip M. Carter Phillip M. Carter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2011) 86 (2): 259–263. h…
The Poor Law Commission
Throughout the opening decades of the nineteenth century central govern-ment was bombarded with pamphlets, speeches and general political pres-sures to investigate and reform the operation of the poor laws.1 Yet root and branch national poor law reform was never attempted. It was from the widespread violence in much of southern England (and elsewhere in the country) in 1830-31 that renewed concern developed about how poor relief was administered.…
The Enigma of Access
Through an account of the efforts of Scottish immigrant settler James Dawson to negotiate legitimate access to Indigenous country (in south-west Victoria), a theory of ‘the law of accidents’ is outlined. Such a law is based on a performative conception of language: it is grounded in accidence, the aspect of grammar that articulates speaking positions. The case is made that Dawson’s publication Australian Aborigines (1881) is especially alive to t…
Shared spaces, shared structures
This study examines the appropriation of grammatical structures of African American English ( AAE ) by adolescent Latinos attending a multi‐ethnic middle school in North Carolina. The study couples quantitative variationist analysis of four ‘core’ grammatical features of AAE (invariant be , copula deletion, past‐tense copula leveling, and third‐person singular – s absence) with the findings of an ethnographic study of Latino adolescent identity i…
Parrot Interpreter
Humans, it seems, can't get enough of parrots. Ethnography, folklore, psychology, and, of course, imaginative literature all offer copious evidence of our fantasy of living with, communicating with and even being parrots. The natural history of parrots and the cultural history of parrots present something of a conundrum: on the one hand, a massive destructiveness (illegal bird and feather trade, environment destruction, scientific collections); o…
Joseph Bramley of East Stoke, Nottinghamshire
Joseph Bramley, of East Stoke in Nottinghamshire, fell on hard times during the closing stages of the ‘crusade against outdoor relief’. The Crusade roughly spanned the last three decades of the 19th century. In those poor law unions where the Crusade was adopted, a new and unforgiving environment was established in which pauperism was to be managed rigorously, ruthlessly and heartlessly. Moreover, the Crusade seriously affected the lives of many …
Pressure
Pressure is a typical symptom of city living. The cultural permutations of the concept of a continuous force applied to a body can be followed in the range of explanatory metaphors that use it. Terms like expression, impression, oppression and repression have wide currency across the human sciences. The deployment of such terms as if they were explanatory suggests that such disciplinary domains as urban sociology, environmental aesthetics and cog…
Timing and tempo in spontaneous phonological error repair
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