Secondary education as a group marker in St. Louis, Missouri

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ID2850161
AuthorsDaniel Duncan (0000-0001-6744-8510, Newcastle University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume50
Issue5
Pages667-694
Publication date2021-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404520000378
OpenAlexW3003510279
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited25

This article calls attention to the saliency of secondary education within the community and its utility in constructing social categories, in order to consider how it affects linguistic variation. Older St. Louisans draw on secondary education to construct a divide between those who attended Catholic high schools and those who attended public schools. I show that speakers in a sample of older St. Louisans differ in production of thethoughtvowel based on education type. This effect is weakened in apparent time when we consider a larger sample that includes both older and younger speakers. I draw on Brubaker's (2004) view of groups as events and actions to argue that these categories were indexed only while they had a high degree of groupness, and suggest that social changes that led to diminished groupness between Catholics and Publics also resulted in the loss of a linguistic distinction between the groups. (Education, groups, Northern Cities Shift, Catholicism

Construct (python library) · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Publics · Sample (material) · Sociology · Variation (astronomy) · Vowel · Gender Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Social Psychology

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