Constructing the (m)other
A-prefixing, stance, and the lessons of motherhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2884685 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allison Burkette (0000-0003-0262-5445, University of Mississippi, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 239-258 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language in Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047404513000225 |
| OpenAlex | W2126828256 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 37 |
The present study examines two unprompted versions of the same story, related by a mother and daughter in separate sociolinguistic interviews. Following a quantitative intraspeaker comparison of their use of grammatical features associated with Appalachian English within the entirety of their interviews, this study undertakes a close reading of the narratives (along with additional passages from the daughter) to demonstrate the manner in which the two women construct their identities as "mother" and as "other" through conversational narrative and the use of local dialect features. Specifically, this article addresses the use of regional grammatical variables to enact speaker stances toward mothering, focusing on two women's independent recollections of a single incident and how these narratives dialogically construct the (m)other. (Language variation, Appalachian English, stancetaking, motherhood
Construct (python library) · Daughter · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · Reading (process) · Sociology · Variation (astronomy) · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology
The a-Curve and Personally Patterned Variation
Stance-taking, accommodation, code switching and language crossing
Language, Material Culture, and Materiality in Appalachia
I Guess They’re All Real Moms Then”
The Contested Southernness of Appalachia
A-Prefixing in Linguistic Atlas Project Data
A comprehensive survey of a-prefixing in Southern Appalachia
Constructing the (m)other
Complaints about technology as a resource for identity-work
Linguistic and object-based stance-taking in Appalachian interviews
Language in culture and society
Gender and conversational interaction
Stories, community, and place
The Dialogic Imagination
Stancetaking in Discourse
Style
Men Talk
Style as Stance
The stance triangle
Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life
Appalachia
Women and later life
Accounting for achievement in parent-teacher interviews
Language and Social Networks
Reconsidering the Semantics of A-Prefixing
Toward a Description of A-Prefixing in Appalachian English
More on the Semantics of A-Prefixing
Mobility, Indexicality, and the Enregisterment of “Pittsburghese
Constructing identity
Men’s Identities and Sociolinguistic Variation
Identity and interaction
The social life of cultural value
The Social Motivation of a Sound Change
Women, Language and Identity
Dialect accommodation in a bi-ethnic mountain enclave community
Constructing the (m)other
Rethinking Context
Whorish Old Man" and "One (Animal) Gentleman
Voice, Footing, Enregisterment
Identify
World Englishes
Poetics and Performances as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |