Revised Perceptions

Changing Dialect Perceptions in Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6031455
AutoresKathryn Remlinger, Joseph Salmons (0000-0003-3491-0443), Luanne Von Schneidemesser
Año2009
Volumen84
Número2
Páginas176-191
Fecha de publicación2009-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Speech (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00031283-2009-014
OpenAlexW1969441012
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas14

This article documents the developing awareness of and positive attitudes toward regional English used in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Wisconsin and also exemplifies some key regional markers in each variety. Findings demonstrate how this awareness and affinity has taken shape through historical processes. These processes have affected the structure of variation in that features once considered ethnic markers are now recognized as regional features. This indexical shift has occurred through relations with outsiders and economic processes. These new indexes are reinforced through discursive and metadiscursive practices, in particular those represented in the media, and are very much underway, shifting and changing at present. With them, some structural features have come to mean “local” and those who use them are perceived to be the “best” speakers and thus the “most authentic” locals, despite the fact that many of the stereotypical features are found throughout the upper Midwest, even in other parts of the United States and southern Ontario

Archaeology · Economic geography · Ethnic group · Geography · Indexicality · Linguistics · Peninsula · Perception · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · Variety (cybernetics · Anthropology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology