The Routledge Companion to the Work of John R. Rickford

This comprehensive collection is the first full book-length volume to bring together writing focused around and inspired by the work of John Rickford and his role in sociolinguistic research over the last four decades.

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Renée Blake is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, USA.

Isabelle Buchstaller is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

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Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Introduction to the volume
   Renée Blake and Isabelle Buchstaller

3. The makings of a linguist: John R. Rickford's education in his native Guyana Ewart Thomas

1. Exploring language contact from a sociolinguistic and socio-historical point of view

2. Introduction John Victor Singler

3. In the Fisherman's net: Language contact in a sociolinguistics context Shelome Gooden

4. African- Indian- American South- and Caribbean worlds: connecting with John R. Rickford's language contact research Rajend Mesthrie

5. Ideophones in Guyanese speech: An inventory of depictive lexemes and implications for (de)creolization Walter Edwards and Onjel Williams

6. Systemic linguistic discrimination and disenfranchisement in the Creolophone Caribbean: The case of the St. Lucian legal system Ian Robertson and Sandra Evans

7. The English words in Sranan: From where, from whom and how? André Sherriah, Hubert Devonish, Ewart Thomas, and Nicole Creanza

8. Another look at the creolist hypothesis of AAVE origins Don Winford

9. Rickford's list of African American English grammatical features: An update Arthur Spears

10. The 'aks' of its day?: Revisiting invariant am in Early Black English John McWhorter

11. Viewing ex-slave narratives from a different angle: Variation and discourse Lisa Green and Ayana Whitmal

12. Race, class, and linguistic camouflage: Remote past BEEN and the divergence debate revisited Tracey Weldon

13. The sociolinguistic ramifications of social injustice: The case of Black ASL Robert Bayley, Ceil Lucas, Joseph Hill, and Carolyn McCaskill

14. Ethnolinguistic infusion at a Sephardic adventure camp Sarah Bunin Benor

1. The political ramifications of linguistic heterogeneity

2. Introduction Alicia Beckford Wassink

3. Giving voice to despair and defiance: Rickford in Guyana William Labov

4. American mestizos in the Philippines: 'Mongrelization' and 'mixedness' in American colonial media discourse Bonnie McElhinny

5. Family matters: Seminal Rickford contributions to Kinesics, Education, Linguistics, and Law John Baugh

6. 'Are you Soul Folk, Baby?' Black English, struggle, and consciousness in the 1960s and 1970s Russell J. Rickford

7. We should declare AAL a separate language, although there's no scientific reason (not) to Ralph Fasold

8. Where sociolinguistics and speech science meet: The physiological and acoustic consequences of underbite in a multilectal speaker of African American English Alicia Beckford Wassink

9. Credibility without intelligibility: Implications for hearing vernacular speakers Lauren Hall-Lew, Inês Paiva Couceiro and Amie Fars

10. Using pharyngeals out of context: Linguistic stereotypes in parodic performances of Mizrahi Hebrew speakers
    Roey Gafter

11. Sociolinguists trying to make a difference: race, research and linguistic activism Mary Bucholtz

12. Linguistic justice: Evaluating the speech of asylum claimants
    Peter Patrick

13. Linguistics on trial, under arrest, and in prison: On sharing sociolinguistic and forensic linguistic knowledge with attorneys, law enforcement practitioners, and incarcerated persons Natalie Schilling

14. Implicit sociolinguistic bias and social justice
    Walt Wolfram and Karen Eisenhauer

15. Forging new ways of hearing diversity: The politics of linguistic heterogeneity in the work of John R. Rickford Sharese King and Jonathan Rosa

    IV The stylistic implications of language variation and change

16. Introduction Edward Finegan

17. Indexical obsolescence Penelope Eckert

18. Age grading, style, and language change: A lifespan perspective Gillian Sankoff

19. Style: The presentation of self in everyday life to an empty theater? Dennis Preston

20. Pidgin, pride and prejudice: Race, gender and stylistic codeswitching in Nigerian stand-up comedy Rudolf Gaudio

21. 'I'd better schedule an MRI': The linguistic stylization of 'white' ethnicity in comedy Carmen Fought

22. The N word as an emblem of survival identity in African American comedy Jacquelyn Rahman

23. Style in motion: Lectal focusing in an African American sermon Devyani Sharma, Lars Hinrichs, Tracy Conner, and Andrea Kortenhoven

24. Topic-restricting as far as revisited Robin Melnick and Thomas Wasow

25. Don't neglect the situation but don't stop there either! On intra-individual variation
    Frans Gregersen

    V. The educational implications of linguistic heterogeneity and social injustice

26. Introduction Julie Sweetland and Angela Rickford

27. The Effects of culturally relevant texts and questions on the reading comprehension of students of color
    Angela E. Rickford

28. Vernaculars Symbols of solidarity and truth in literature Hazel Simmons-McDonald

29. Transnationalism, social networks, and heterogeneous language practices: A case study of a New York-based Jamaican student Shondel Nero

30. Vetting the Versatility Approach Julie Sweetland

31. John Rickford and social justice for speakers of Vernacular English Jeff Siegel

32. I, too, am America': African American Language, #BlackLivesMatter, and Critical (Socio)Linguistics Sonja Lanehart

33. A Pedagogy of Linguistic Justice: John Rickford in the classroom and the field
    Django Paris

VI. Vignettes

John R. Rickford back in the day

Gregory Guy

Tribute to a colleague

Tom Wasow

Putting the humanity into linguistics

Dan Jurafsky

Notes on mentorship

Isla Kristina Flores-Bayer The Consummate Teacher

Sarah Roberts

Ode to John R. Rickford

Christine Théberge Rafal

Notes on crossdisciplinary mentorship

Janina Fenigsen

Tribute to a scholar

Salikoko S. Mufwene

Spoken Soul: Tribute to a seminal work

Geneva Smitherman and H. Samy Alim

John R. Rickford's influence on language and practice

Toya Wyatt

Tribute from an educator

Noma LeMoine

Black Lives Matter

Michel DeGraff