Sylvie Dubois
Biographic Data
| ID | 3827643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sylvie Dubois |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sylvie |
| FAMILY NAME | Dubois |
| SIGNATURE | DUBOIS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6639-4063 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
La dimension sociale et la dynamique interactionnelle
Depuis longtemps, les sociolinguistes ont mis au jour la forte relation entre l’aspect social et l’interaction : Labov, 1966 ; Bell, 1984 ; Finegan et Biber, 1994 ; Rickford et McNair-Knox, 1994. Ils ont prouvé que les facteurs sociodémographiques (sexe, âge, classe sociale, ethnicité) influencent la variation linguistique quel que soit le style langagier (formel ou informel) adopté par le locuteur. L’usage de l’énumération - une stratégie discur…
Chronic Illness Management in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Patients
In Canada, people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds are at a greater risk of developing a chronic illness, and are more likely to experience adverse health effects and challenges in accessing high-quality care compared with Canadian-born individuals. This, in part, has been attributed to having inadequate access to information and resources needed to manage their illness(es). A qualitative descriptive design and induct…
Une Histoire Épistolaire de la Louisiane
Sous la direction de Sylvie Dubois Avec la collaboration de Albert Camp, Aaron Emmitte, Jane Richardson et Kathryn Watson À l’automne 2008, le Centre d’études françaises et francophones de la Louisiana State University a contacté une douzaine de chercheurs nord-américains et européens, de renommée internationale, spécialisés dans l’étude du français en Amérique du Nord. Il les a mis au défi d’analyser, selon leur propre perspective de recherche, …
Mapping a Dialect “Mixtury”
Research Article| December 01 2009 MAPPING A DIALECT "MIXTURY": VOWEL PHONOLOGY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN AND WHITE MEN IN RURAL SOUTHERN LOUISIANA MICHAEL WROBLEWSKI; MICHAEL WROBLEWSKI Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google THEA STRAND; THEA STRAND Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google SYLVIE DUBOIS SYLVIE DUBOIS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Soc…
Letter-writing in French Louisiana
This article reports a sociolinguistic analysis of the French spelling system in newly discovered, authentic personal letters written by literate settlers living in Louisiana during the 18th and 19th centuries. After showing that French and non-French vernaculars were very much alive among the Louisiana founding population, the paper examines the use of old and new French norms in Louisiana for three socio-economic classes over time: the elite, p…
The English Vernacular of the Creoles of Louisiana
The English spoken by Creole African Americans in southern Louisiana reveals language change in the shift from French to English and the persistence of local forms of English. The overview of the socioeconomic history of Louisiana details the number of ethnic groups and the fluctuating social and linguistic relations among them over time. The study sample consists of 42 African Americans with French ancestry living in Opelousas in St. Landry Pari…
Creoles and Cajuns
Research Article| May 01 2003 CREOLES AND CAJUNS: A PORTRAIT IN BLACK AND WHITE SYLVIE DUBOIS; SYLVIE DUBOIS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google BARBARA M. HORVATH BARBARA M. HORVATH Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2003) 78 (2): 192–207. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-78-2-192 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation SYLVIE DUBOIS, BARBARA M. HORV…
Sounding Cajun
Research Article| August 01 2002 SOUNDING CAJUN: THE RHETORICAL USE OF DIALECT IN SPEECH AND WRITING SYLVIE DUBOIS; SYLVIE DUBOIS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google BARBARA M. HORVATH BARBARA M. HORVATH Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2002) 77 (3): 264–287. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-77-3-264 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data …
Creole is, Creole ain't
Creole identity in Louisiana acquired diverse meanings for several ethnic groups during the French and Spanish regimes, before and after the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, and through the last part of the 20th century. In spite of a strong shift toward "Black" identity by many African Americans in the state, those who are fluent Creole French speakers now seem to be the repository of Louisiana Creole identity. This article presents a diachr…
When the music changes, you change too
The role of gender in language change, as discussed in Eckert (1989a) and Labov (1990), forms the context for an exploration of the role of gender in the development of Cajun English. Neither Principle I, Ia, or II predicts the role of gender in Cajun English, which leads us to question the generalizability of the principles to the specific sociolinguistic setting of this study—a closed cultural enclave. The study of four sociolinguistic variable…
Let's tink about dat
The English of bilingual Cajuns living in southern Louisiana has been pejoratively depicted as an accented English; foremost among the stereotypes of Cajun English is the use of tink and dat for think and that . We present a variationist study of /θ/ and /ð/ in the speech of bilingual Cajuns in St. Landry Parish. The results show a complex interrelationship of age, gender, and social network. One of the major findings is a v-shaped age pattern ra…
From Accent to Marker in Cajun English
The English of bilingual Cajuns living in southern Louisiana has been described as an accented variety of English, the result of interference from French. In order to investigate this proposition, we present a variationist study of four features of Cajun English: 1) the interdental fricatives /th, ð7 realized by the dental stops [t, d]; 2) the failure to aspirate the stops /p, t, k/; 3) the monophthongization of /ai/ and 4) vowel nasalization. Th…
Cajun is Dead - Long Live Cajun
Researchers have reported an evolution or change in progress in the Cajun identity, though their intuitions have not been confirmed empirically. The traditional membership borders of what a community consists of no longer apply in the case of Cajun. In order to understand these questions of identity and belonging, and to scientifically control the interpretation of the linguistic behavior of Cajun speakers, a general survey has been conducted on …
Structural processes in enumeration
Enumeration is a figure of speech which evokes a thematic set through the concatenation of several of its elements. Its linguistic structure is variable with respect to the number of components, their syntactic nature, the use of coordinating markers and of the processes of repetition, reduction, and expansion. In studying the variation among 3,464 tokens of enumeration in Montreal French, we explain how the constitutive processes interact in ter…
Extension particles, etc
The study of the 2700 occurrences of phrase-terminal extension particles (e.g., tout ça ‘all that’, des affaires de même ‘things like that’) in two large corpora of Montréal French reveals that they are typically formed of some combination of a quantifier, a generic and a comparative, and that the particle is optionally prefaced by a connector (the conjunctions puis, et ‘and’, ou ‘or’). The 76 particle types (not counting minor variations) also i…
Interviewer's linguistic production and its effect on speaker's descriptive style
A re-examination of primary school descriptions by Anglo, Greek, and Italian speakers in the Sydney sociolinguistic survey focuses on the interactional patterns that characterize the elicitation of a particular text type. Two aspects of the interaction are analyzed—the type or mixture of types of questions asked by the fieldworker within the same or different turns at talk, and the response behavior of the speaker—in order to determine what part …
When the music changes, you change too
The role of gender in language change, as discussed in Eckert (1989a) and Labov (1990), forms the context for an exploration of the role of gender in the development of Cajun English. Neither Principle I, Ia, or II predicts the role of gender in Cajun English, which leads us to question the generalizability of the principles to the specific sociolinguistic setting of this study—a closed cultural enclave. The study of four sociolinguistic variable…
Let's tink about dat
The English of bilingual Cajuns living in southern Louisiana has been pejoratively depicted as an accented English; foremost among the stereotypes of Cajun English is the use of tink and dat for think and that . We present a variationist study of /θ/ and /ð/ in the speech of bilingual Cajuns in St. Landry Parish. The results show a complex interrelationship of age, gender, and social network. One of the major findings is a v-shaped age pattern ra…
Extension particles, etc
The study of the 2700 occurrences of phrase-terminal extension particles (e.g., tout ça ‘all that’, des affaires de même ‘things like that’) in two large corpora of Montréal French reveals that they are typically formed of some combination of a quantifier, a generic and a comparative, and that the particle is optionally prefaced by a connector (the conjunctions puis, et ‘and’, ou ‘or’). The 76 particle types (not counting minor variations) also i…
Cajun is Dead - Long Live Cajun
Researchers have reported an evolution or change in progress in the Cajun identity, though their intuitions have not been confirmed empirically. The traditional membership borders of what a community consists of no longer apply in the case of Cajun. In order to understand these questions of identity and belonging, and to scientifically control the interpretation of the linguistic behavior of Cajun speakers, a general survey has been conducted on …
Sounding Cajun
Research Article| August 01 2002 SOUNDING CAJUN: THE RHETORICAL USE OF DIALECT IN SPEECH AND WRITING SYLVIE DUBOIS; SYLVIE DUBOIS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google BARBARA M. HORVATH BARBARA M. HORVATH Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2002) 77 (3): 264–287. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-77-3-264 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data …
Creole is, Creole ain't
Creole identity in Louisiana acquired diverse meanings for several ethnic groups during the French and Spanish regimes, before and after the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, and through the last part of the 20th century. In spite of a strong shift toward "Black" identity by many African Americans in the state, those who are fluent Creole French speakers now seem to be the repository of Louisiana Creole identity. This article presents a diachr…
From Accent to Marker in Cajun English
The English of bilingual Cajuns living in southern Louisiana has been described as an accented variety of English, the result of interference from French. In order to investigate this proposition, we present a variationist study of four features of Cajun English: 1) the interdental fricatives /th, ð7 realized by the dental stops [t, d]; 2) the failure to aspirate the stops /p, t, k/; 3) the monophthongization of /ai/ and 4) vowel nasalization. Th…
Creoles and Cajuns
Research Article| May 01 2003 CREOLES AND CAJUNS: A PORTRAIT IN BLACK AND WHITE SYLVIE DUBOIS; SYLVIE DUBOIS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google BARBARA M. HORVATH BARBARA M. HORVATH Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2003) 78 (2): 192–207. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-78-2-192 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation SYLVIE DUBOIS, BARBARA M. HORV…
Interviewer's linguistic production and its effect on speaker's descriptive style
A re-examination of primary school descriptions by Anglo, Greek, and Italian speakers in the Sydney sociolinguistic survey focuses on the interactional patterns that characterize the elicitation of a particular text type. Two aspects of the interaction are analyzed—the type or mixture of types of questions asked by the fieldworker within the same or different turns at talk, and the response behavior of the speaker—in order to determine what part …
The English Vernacular of the Creoles of Louisiana
The English spoken by Creole African Americans in southern Louisiana reveals language change in the shift from French to English and the persistence of local forms of English. The overview of the socioeconomic history of Louisiana details the number of ethnic groups and the fluctuating social and linguistic relations among them over time. The study sample consists of 42 African Americans with French ancestry living in Opelousas in St. Landry Pari…
Extension particles, etc
The study of the 2700 occurrences of phrase-terminal extension particles (e.g., tout ça ‘all that’, des affaires de même ‘things like that’) in two large corpora of Montréal French reveals that they are typically formed of some combination of a quantifier, a generic and a comparative, and that the particle is optionally prefaced by a connector (the conjunctions puis, et ‘and’, ou ‘or’). The 76 particle types (not counting minor variations) also i…
Interviewer's linguistic production and its effect on speaker's descriptive style
A re-examination of primary school descriptions by Anglo, Greek, and Italian speakers in the Sydney sociolinguistic survey focuses on the interactional patterns that characterize the elicitation of a particular text type. Two aspects of the interaction are analyzed—the type or mixture of types of questions asked by the fieldworker within the same or different turns at talk, and the response behavior of the speaker—in order to determine what part …
Structural processes in enumeration
Enumeration is a figure of speech which evokes a thematic set through the concatenation of several of its elements. Its linguistic structure is variable with respect to the number of components, their syntactic nature, the use of coordinating markers and of the processes of repetition, reduction, and expansion. In studying the variation among 3,464 tokens of enumeration in Montreal French, we explain how the constitutive processes interact in ter…
Cajun is Dead - Long Live Cajun
Researchers have reported an evolution or change in progress in the Cajun identity, though their intuitions have not been confirmed empirically. The traditional membership borders of what a community consists of no longer apply in the case of Cajun. In order to understand these questions of identity and belonging, and to scientifically control the interpretation of the linguistic behavior of Cajun speakers, a general survey has been conducted on …
Let's tink about dat
The English of bilingual Cajuns living in southern Louisiana has been pejoratively depicted as an accented English; foremost among the stereotypes of Cajun English is the use of tink and dat for think and that . We present a variationist study of /θ/ and /ð/ in the speech of bilingual Cajuns in St. Landry Parish. The results show a complex interrelationship of age, gender, and social network. One of the major findings is a v-shaped age pattern ra…
From Accent to Marker in Cajun English
The English of bilingual Cajuns living in southern Louisiana has been described as an accented variety of English, the result of interference from French. In order to investigate this proposition, we present a variationist study of four features of Cajun English: 1) the interdental fricatives /th, ð7 realized by the dental stops [t, d]; 2) the failure to aspirate the stops /p, t, k/; 3) the monophthongization of /ai/ and 4) vowel nasalization. Th…
When the music changes, you change too
The role of gender in language change, as discussed in Eckert (1989a) and Labov (1990), forms the context for an exploration of the role of gender in the development of Cajun English. Neither Principle I, Ia, or II predicts the role of gender in Cajun English, which leads us to question the generalizability of the principles to the specific sociolinguistic setting of this study—a closed cultural enclave. The study of four sociolinguistic variable…
Creole is, Creole ain't
Creole identity in Louisiana acquired diverse meanings for several ethnic groups during the French and Spanish regimes, before and after the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, and through the last part of the 20th century. In spite of a strong shift toward "Black" identity by many African Americans in the state, those who are fluent Creole French speakers now seem to be the repository of Louisiana Creole identity. This article presents a diachr…
Sounding Cajun
Research Article| August 01 2002 SOUNDING CAJUN: THE RHETORICAL USE OF DIALECT IN SPEECH AND WRITING SYLVIE DUBOIS; SYLVIE DUBOIS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google BARBARA M. HORVATH BARBARA M. HORVATH Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2002) 77 (3): 264–287. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-77-3-264 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data …
Letter-writing in French Louisiana
This article reports a sociolinguistic analysis of the French spelling system in newly discovered, authentic personal letters written by literate settlers living in Louisiana during the 18th and 19th centuries. After showing that French and non-French vernaculars were very much alive among the Louisiana founding population, the paper examines the use of old and new French norms in Louisiana for three socio-economic classes over time: the elite, p…
The English Vernacular of the Creoles of Louisiana
The English spoken by Creole African Americans in southern Louisiana reveals language change in the shift from French to English and the persistence of local forms of English. The overview of the socioeconomic history of Louisiana details the number of ethnic groups and the fluctuating social and linguistic relations among them over time. The study sample consists of 42 African Americans with French ancestry living in Opelousas in St. Landry Pari…
Creoles and Cajuns
Research Article| May 01 2003 CREOLES AND CAJUNS: A PORTRAIT IN BLACK AND WHITE SYLVIE DUBOIS; SYLVIE DUBOIS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google BARBARA M. HORVATH BARBARA M. HORVATH Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2003) 78 (2): 192–207. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-78-2-192 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation SYLVIE DUBOIS, BARBARA M. HORV…
Mapping a Dialect “Mixtury”
Research Article| December 01 2009 MAPPING A DIALECT "MIXTURY": VOWEL PHONOLOGY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN AND WHITE MEN IN RURAL SOUTHERN LOUISIANA MICHAEL WROBLEWSKI; MICHAEL WROBLEWSKI Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google THEA STRAND; THEA STRAND Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google SYLVIE DUBOIS SYLVIE DUBOIS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Soc…
Une Histoire Épistolaire de la Louisiane
Sous la direction de Sylvie Dubois Avec la collaboration de Albert Camp, Aaron Emmitte, Jane Richardson et Kathryn Watson À l’automne 2008, le Centre d’études françaises et francophones de la Louisiana State University a contacté une douzaine de chercheurs nord-américains et européens, de renommée internationale, spécialisés dans l’étude du français en Amérique du Nord. Il les a mis au défi d’analyser, selon leur propre perspective de recherche, …
La dimension sociale et la dynamique interactionnelle
Depuis longtemps, les sociolinguistes ont mis au jour la forte relation entre l’aspect social et l’interaction : Labov, 1966 ; Bell, 1984 ; Finegan et Biber, 1994 ; Rickford et McNair-Knox, 1994. Ils ont prouvé que les facteurs sociodémographiques (sexe, âge, classe sociale, ethnicité) influencent la variation linguistique quel que soit le style langagier (formel ou informel) adopté par le locuteur. L’usage de l’énumération - une stratégie discur…
Chronic Illness Management in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Patients
In Canada, people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds are at a greater risk of developing a chronic illness, and are more likely to experience adverse health effects and challenges in accessing high-quality care compared with Canadian-born individuals. This, in part, has been attributed to having inadequate access to information and resources needed to manage their illness(es). A qualitative descriptive design and induct…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (9 works) · History (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works)