“Diversity’s good unless you have a Southern accent, then you’re a hick”: Self-evaluation, linguistic insecurity and symbolic domination in Middle Tennessee

The linguistic variety spoken in the south of the United States (Southern American English, hereafter SAE), is a well-documented field of investigation (Farington et al., 2018; Feagin, 2018; Fridland, 2003, 2008; Labov et al., 2006; Nunnally & Bailey, 2018; Reed, 2014). Due to its geographical a...

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Main Author: Marc-Philippe Brunet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/5131