Kirk Hazen
Biographic Data
| ID | 740795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirk Hazen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Hazen |
| SIGNATURE | HAZEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Virginia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The role of linguistic structure in the perceptions of vernacular speech: Evidence from L1 English and English as a foreign language
This study explores the role of linguistic structure in speakers’ perceptions of vernacular English, i.e. speech used in informal interactions. In so doing, it tests the assumptions of the Interface Principle ( Labov 1993 ) and its major claim that semantic and discourse-pragmatic features will elicit a greater degree of social awareness than morphosyntactic variants ( Levon and Buchstaller 2015 ). Relying on data obtained from 372 respondents, w…
The Contested Southernness of Appalachia
Representations of the Appalachian region since the Civil War have cast its people in a uniformly negative light, a perception extended to the region’s speech, generally regarded as Southern. Determining the geographic borders of the “true” Appalachia may be a futile quest, but an empirical assessment of the “Southernness” of Appalachian Englishes is an accomplishable goal. Traditional representations of Appalachia speech, often propagated by out…
A new role for an ancient variable in Appalachia: Paradigm leveling and standardization in West Virginia
In many rural English-speaking communities, linguistic processes such as paradigm leveling come into direct conflict with social processes of standardization. In the US region of Appalachia, an analysis of past be leveling illustrates the progression of the sociolinguistic clashes between these forces. A quantitative sociolinguistic examination of leveled was (e.g., We was there ) for 67 native Appalachian speakers was conducted to assess the sta…
Variable Words From Variable Lives: Teaching About Language Variation From the Pages of the Dictionary of American Regional English
Review Article| May 01 2012 VARIABLE WORDS FROM VARIABLE Lives: TEACHING ABOUT LANGUAGE VARIATION FROM THE PAGES OF THE DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN REGIONAL ENGLISH Kirk Hazen Kirk Hazen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2012) 87 (2): 214–223. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-1668253 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kirk Hazen; VARIABLE WORDS FRO…
Flying high above the social radar: Coronal stop deletion in modern Appalachia
In this paper I examine how a classic feature of variationist research, coronal stop deletion (CSD), operates at the end of the 20th century in one of the most renowned vernacular dialects in the United States, English in Appalachia. Through examination of CSD in a corpus of Appalachian speech, this paper also focuses on the methodological choices available. Several methodological questions are reviewed, such as the choices concerning voicing of …
The fall of demonstrative them: Evidence from Appalachia
The varieties of English in the United States’ Appalachian region have undergone changes throughout the 20th century. This paper examines a change to one of the more stereotyped of vernacular dialect features, the use of them in a demonstrative determiner construction: them apples are the best . Although this dialect feature is found in English varieties around the world, this study is the first to take up a quantitative assessment of it as a soc…
Unvernacular Appalachia: An empirical perspective on West Virginia dialect variation
Most popular discussions of varieties of English in Appalachia (USA) focus only on vernacular dialect features, suggesting that these hallmark characteristics are common for ‘true’ mountain folk (Dial, 1972). Naturally, the reality of the dialects in this region is more complex and subdued than the stereotype. While traditional features, such as a-prefixing (e.g. she is a-working), have played a role in the region, most stereotypical, Appalachian…
Sali Tagliamonte , Analysing sociolinguistic variation
Sali Tagliamonte, Analysing sociolinguistic variation . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 296. Pb $34.99. Analysing sociolinguistic variation fulfills the expectations of a modern textbook. It includes exercises (one at the end of each chapter) and breakout boxes containing tips, summaries, tables, and data analysis examples. However, I can envision myself using it more in my own research than in the classroom. This is not becau…
Ing: A Vernacular Baseline for English in Appalachia
In order to provide a contemporary description of Appalachian English, this article investigates the (ING) variable in Appalachian speech, explaining both the linguistic and social constraints on variation. Data from 67 West Virginia speakers are qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed for grammatical context, preceding and following place of articulation, sociogeographic orientation, age, sex, ethnicity, social class, and interview context. Re…
Mergers in the mountains: West Virginia division and unification
This paper examines the status of two vowel mergers in a rural area of the United States. The front-lax merger has traditionally been a southern US merger, and the low-back merger has traditionally been a northern or western US merger. In areas of West Virginia, the same speakers demonstrate both. This geographic overlap of both mergers reinforces the idea that West Virginia is a transitional dialect region. In addition, the traditionally distinc…
On Book Reviewing as a Scholarly Act
Research Article| May 01 2004 ON BOOK REVIEWING AS A SCHOLARLY ACT KIRK HAZEN KIRK HAZEN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2004) 79 (2): 208–209. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-79-2-208 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation KIRK HAZEN; …
Lexicon and American Culture
Review Article| August 01 2004 LEXICON AND AMERICAN CULTURE: How We Talk: American Regional English Today By Allan A. MetcalfBoston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Pp. xvi + 206. KIRK HAZEN KIRK HAZEN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2004) 79 (3): 328–333. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-79-3-328 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation KIRK HAZEN; LEXIC…
Aave State of the Art Conference; Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English
Review Article| February 01 2003 AAVE STATE OF THE ART CONFERENCE; Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English Edited by Sonja L. Lanehart Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2001. Pp. xvii + 371. KIRK HAZEN KIRK HAZEN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2003) 78 (1): 103–119. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-78-1-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Searc…
Identity and Language Variation in a Rural Community
This article investigates an external variable critical to the understanding of sociolinguistic variation in a rural, tri-ethnic community in the Southern United States. Cultural identity, the orientation of the speaker to the community, was first observed in variationist work by Labov (1963) but has not been regularly analyzed as have sex, age, and ethnicity. Cultural identity is postulated as a speaker's orientation to the local and larger regi…
Better Science ∼ Better Science Education
Research Article| August 01 2000 BETTER SCIENCE ∼ BETTER SCIENCE EDUCATION KIRK HAZEN KIRK HAZEN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (3): 270–273. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-3-270 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation KIRK…
A Methodological Suggestion on /Aj Ungliding
Research Article| May 01 2000 A METHODOLOGICAL SUGGESTION ON /Aj UNGLIDING KIRK HAZEN KIRK HAZEN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (2): 221–224. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-2-221 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation KIRK HAZEN; A METHODOLOGICAL SUGGESTION ON /Aj UNGLIDING. American Speech 1 May 2000; 75 (2): 221–224. doi: https:…
The birth of a variant: Evidence for a tripartite negative past be paradigm
In the study of past be , most researchers have assumed a two variant distinction for negative forms (i.e., wasn't and weren't ). In Warren County, North Carolina, evidence suggests a three variant distinction (i.e., wasn't, weren't , and wont ). Throughout the history of sociolinguistic investigation, two types of variants have been noted: a sociolinguistic variant and a linguistic variant. In Warren County, wont functions as both types, as demo…
Isolation Within Isolation: A Solitary Century of African-American Vernacular English
The nature of language diversity in small, isolated communities is considered by examining a unique sociolingustic situation in which a one African-American family has resided for over 130 years on a small island community located off the Southeastern coast of the United States. The Anglo-American community maintained a distinctive dialect due to their isolation from the mainland United States, while the sole African-American family maintained a …
Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics
Ing: A Vernacular Baseline for English in Appalachia
In order to provide a contemporary description of Appalachian English, this article investigates the (ING) variable in Appalachian speech, explaining both the linguistic and social constraints on variation. Data from 67 West Virginia speakers are qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed for grammatical context, preceding and following place of articulation, sociogeographic orientation, age, sex, ethnicity, social class, and interview context. Re…
Identity and Language Variation in a Rural Community
This article investigates an external variable critical to the understanding of sociolinguistic variation in a rural, tri-ethnic community in the Southern United States. Cultural identity, the orientation of the speaker to the community, was first observed in variationist work by Labov (1963) but has not been regularly analyzed as have sex, age, and ethnicity. Cultural identity is postulated as a speaker's orientation to the local and larger regi…
Isolation Within Isolation: A Solitary Century of African-American Vernacular English
The nature of language diversity in small, isolated communities is considered by examining a unique sociolingustic situation in which a one African-American family has resided for over 130 years on a small island community located off the Southeastern coast of the United States. The Anglo-American community maintained a distinctive dialect due to their isolation from the mainland United States, while the sole African-American family maintained a …
Flying high above the social radar: Coronal stop deletion in modern Appalachia
In this paper I examine how a classic feature of variationist research, coronal stop deletion (CSD), operates at the end of the 20th century in one of the most renowned vernacular dialects in the United States, English in Appalachia. Through examination of CSD in a corpus of Appalachian speech, this paper also focuses on the methodological choices available. Several methodological questions are reviewed, such as the choices concerning voicing of …
Mergers in the mountains: West Virginia division and unification
This paper examines the status of two vowel mergers in a rural area of the United States. The front-lax merger has traditionally been a southern US merger, and the low-back merger has traditionally been a northern or western US merger. In areas of West Virginia, the same speakers demonstrate both. This geographic overlap of both mergers reinforces the idea that West Virginia is a transitional dialect region. In addition, the traditionally distinc…
The fall of demonstrative them: Evidence from Appalachia
The varieties of English in the United States’ Appalachian region have undergone changes throughout the 20th century. This paper examines a change to one of the more stereotyped of vernacular dialect features, the use of them in a demonstrative determiner construction: them apples are the best . Although this dialect feature is found in English varieties around the world, this study is the first to take up a quantitative assessment of it as a soc…
The birth of a variant: Evidence for a tripartite negative past be paradigm
In the study of past be , most researchers have assumed a two variant distinction for negative forms (i.e., wasn't and weren't ). In Warren County, North Carolina, evidence suggests a three variant distinction (i.e., wasn't, weren't , and wont ). Throughout the history of sociolinguistic investigation, two types of variants have been noted: a sociolinguistic variant and a linguistic variant. In Warren County, wont functions as both types, as demo…
Variable Words From Variable Lives: Teaching About Language Variation From the Pages of the Dictionary of American Regional English
Review Article| May 01 2012 VARIABLE WORDS FROM VARIABLE Lives: TEACHING ABOUT LANGUAGE VARIATION FROM THE PAGES OF THE DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN REGIONAL ENGLISH Kirk Hazen Kirk Hazen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2012) 87 (2): 214–223. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-1668253 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kirk Hazen; VARIABLE WORDS FRO…
A Methodological Suggestion on /Aj Ungliding
Research Article| May 01 2000 A METHODOLOGICAL SUGGESTION ON /Aj UNGLIDING KIRK HAZEN KIRK HAZEN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (2): 221–224. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-2-221 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation KIRK HAZEN; A METHODOLOGICAL SUGGESTION ON /Aj UNGLIDING. American Speech 1 May 2000; 75 (2): 221–224. doi: https:…
Aave State of the Art Conference; Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English
Review Article| February 01 2003 AAVE STATE OF THE ART CONFERENCE; Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English Edited by Sonja L. Lanehart Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2001. Pp. xvii + 371. KIRK HAZEN KIRK HAZEN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2003) 78 (1): 103–119. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-78-1-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Searc…
The Contested Southernness of Appalachia
Representations of the Appalachian region since the Civil War have cast its people in a uniformly negative light, a perception extended to the region’s speech, generally regarded as Southern. Determining the geographic borders of the “true” Appalachia may be a futile quest, but an empirical assessment of the “Southernness” of Appalachian Englishes is an accomplishable goal. Traditional representations of Appalachia speech, often propagated by out…
A new role for an ancient variable in Appalachia: Paradigm leveling and standardization in West Virginia
In many rural English-speaking communities, linguistic processes such as paradigm leveling come into direct conflict with social processes of standardization. In the US region of Appalachia, an analysis of past be leveling illustrates the progression of the sociolinguistic clashes between these forces. A quantitative sociolinguistic examination of leveled was (e.g., We was there ) for 67 native Appalachian speakers was conducted to assess the sta…
Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics
Isolation Within Isolation: A Solitary Century of African-American Vernacular English
The nature of language diversity in small, isolated communities is considered by examining a unique sociolingustic situation in which a one African-American family has resided for over 130 years on a small island community located off the Southeastern coast of the United States. The Anglo-American community maintained a distinctive dialect due to their isolation from the mainland United States, while the sole African-American family maintained a …
The birth of a variant: Evidence for a tripartite negative past be paradigm
In the study of past be , most researchers have assumed a two variant distinction for negative forms (i.e., wasn't and weren't ). In Warren County, North Carolina, evidence suggests a three variant distinction (i.e., wasn't, weren't , and wont ). Throughout the history of sociolinguistic investigation, two types of variants have been noted: a sociolinguistic variant and a linguistic variant. In Warren County, wont functions as both types, as demo…
Better Science ∼ Better Science Education
Research Article| August 01 2000 BETTER SCIENCE ∼ BETTER SCIENCE EDUCATION KIRK HAZEN KIRK HAZEN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (3): 270–273. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-3-270 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation KIRK…
A Methodological Suggestion on /Aj Ungliding
Research Article| May 01 2000 A METHODOLOGICAL SUGGESTION ON /Aj UNGLIDING KIRK HAZEN KIRK HAZEN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2000) 75 (2): 221–224. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-75-2-221 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation KIRK HAZEN; A METHODOLOGICAL SUGGESTION ON /Aj UNGLIDING. American Speech 1 May 2000; 75 (2): 221–224. doi: https:…
Identity and Language Variation in a Rural Community
This article investigates an external variable critical to the understanding of sociolinguistic variation in a rural, tri-ethnic community in the Southern United States. Cultural identity, the orientation of the speaker to the community, was first observed in variationist work by Labov (1963) but has not been regularly analyzed as have sex, age, and ethnicity. Cultural identity is postulated as a speaker's orientation to the local and larger regi…
Aave State of the Art Conference; Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English
Review Article| February 01 2003 AAVE STATE OF THE ART CONFERENCE; Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English Edited by Sonja L. Lanehart Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2001. Pp. xvii + 371. KIRK HAZEN KIRK HAZEN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2003) 78 (1): 103–119. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-78-1-103 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Searc…
On Book Reviewing as a Scholarly Act
Research Article| May 01 2004 ON BOOK REVIEWING AS A SCHOLARLY ACT KIRK HAZEN KIRK HAZEN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2004) 79 (2): 208–209. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-79-2-208 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation KIRK HAZEN; …
Lexicon and American Culture
Review Article| August 01 2004 LEXICON AND AMERICAN CULTURE: How We Talk: American Regional English Today By Allan A. MetcalfBoston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Pp. xvi + 206. KIRK HAZEN KIRK HAZEN Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2004) 79 (3): 328–333. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-79-3-328 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation KIRK HAZEN; LEXIC…
Mergers in the mountains: West Virginia division and unification
This paper examines the status of two vowel mergers in a rural area of the United States. The front-lax merger has traditionally been a southern US merger, and the low-back merger has traditionally been a northern or western US merger. In areas of West Virginia, the same speakers demonstrate both. This geographic overlap of both mergers reinforces the idea that West Virginia is a transitional dialect region. In addition, the traditionally distinc…
Sali Tagliamonte , Analysing sociolinguistic variation
Sali Tagliamonte, Analysing sociolinguistic variation . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 296. Pb $34.99. Analysing sociolinguistic variation fulfills the expectations of a modern textbook. It includes exercises (one at the end of each chapter) and breakout boxes containing tips, summaries, tables, and data analysis examples. However, I can envision myself using it more in my own research than in the classroom. This is not becau…
Ing: A Vernacular Baseline for English in Appalachia
In order to provide a contemporary description of Appalachian English, this article investigates the (ING) variable in Appalachian speech, explaining both the linguistic and social constraints on variation. Data from 67 West Virginia speakers are qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed for grammatical context, preceding and following place of articulation, sociogeographic orientation, age, sex, ethnicity, social class, and interview context. Re…
Unvernacular Appalachia: An empirical perspective on West Virginia dialect variation
Most popular discussions of varieties of English in Appalachia (USA) focus only on vernacular dialect features, suggesting that these hallmark characteristics are common for ‘true’ mountain folk (Dial, 1972). Naturally, the reality of the dialects in this region is more complex and subdued than the stereotype. While traditional features, such as a-prefixing (e.g. she is a-working), have played a role in the region, most stereotypical, Appalachian…
Flying high above the social radar: Coronal stop deletion in modern Appalachia
In this paper I examine how a classic feature of variationist research, coronal stop deletion (CSD), operates at the end of the 20th century in one of the most renowned vernacular dialects in the United States, English in Appalachia. Through examination of CSD in a corpus of Appalachian speech, this paper also focuses on the methodological choices available. Several methodological questions are reviewed, such as the choices concerning voicing of …
The fall of demonstrative them: Evidence from Appalachia
The varieties of English in the United States’ Appalachian region have undergone changes throughout the 20th century. This paper examines a change to one of the more stereotyped of vernacular dialect features, the use of them in a demonstrative determiner construction: them apples are the best . Although this dialect feature is found in English varieties around the world, this study is the first to take up a quantitative assessment of it as a soc…
Variable Words From Variable Lives: Teaching About Language Variation From the Pages of the Dictionary of American Regional English
Review Article| May 01 2012 VARIABLE WORDS FROM VARIABLE Lives: TEACHING ABOUT LANGUAGE VARIATION FROM THE PAGES OF THE DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN REGIONAL ENGLISH Kirk Hazen Kirk Hazen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2012) 87 (2): 214–223. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-1668253 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kirk Hazen; VARIABLE WORDS FRO…
A new role for an ancient variable in Appalachia: Paradigm leveling and standardization in West Virginia
In many rural English-speaking communities, linguistic processes such as paradigm leveling come into direct conflict with social processes of standardization. In the US region of Appalachia, an analysis of past be leveling illustrates the progression of the sociolinguistic clashes between these forces. A quantitative sociolinguistic examination of leveled was (e.g., We was there ) for 67 native Appalachian speakers was conducted to assess the sta…
The Contested Southernness of Appalachia
Representations of the Appalachian region since the Civil War have cast its people in a uniformly negative light, a perception extended to the region’s speech, generally regarded as Southern. Determining the geographic borders of the “true” Appalachia may be a futile quest, but an empirical assessment of the “Southernness” of Appalachian Englishes is an accomplishable goal. Traditional representations of Appalachia speech, often propagated by out…
The role of linguistic structure in the perceptions of vernacular speech: Evidence from L1 English and English as a foreign language
This study explores the role of linguistic structure in speakers’ perceptions of vernacular English, i.e. speech used in informal interactions. In so doing, it tests the assumptions of the Interface Principle ( Labov 1993 ) and its major claim that semantic and discourse-pragmatic features will elicit a greater degree of social awareness than morphosyntactic variants ( Levon and Buchstaller 2015 ). Relying on data obtained from 372 respondents, w…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (17 works) · Linguistics (14 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (11 works) · History (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works)