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Contextualizing reversal: Local dynamics of the Northern Cities Shift in a Chicago community
Journal of Sociolinguistics ( IF 1.587 ) Pub Date : 2019-12-13 , DOI: 10.1111/josl.12398
Annette D'Onofrio 1 , Jaime Benheim 1
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This paper examines the apparent time evolution of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift among 42 White speakers in one Chicago community. We analyse quantitative patterns of community‐wide vocalic change alongside individual speakers’ lived experiences and attitudes. We find that some features of the Shift are dramatically reversing at the community level, and that changing demographics and social concerns across the community’s history condition which speakers are likely to advance or reverse the Shift. Although some have argued that regionalized sound change reversals reflect speakers’ increasing extra‐local orientations, in this community, we suggest that reversal reflects shifting definitions of racialized localness, including younger speakers’ orientation away from particular emblematic local personae that have become linked with the Shift. We argue that sound changes must be understood in their evolving local contexts, as they can be driven by shifts in the social meanings attached to place‐linked features and in definitions of localness.

中文翻译:

情境化逆转:芝加哥社区北部城市转移的局部动力

本文研究了芝加哥一个社区中42位白人在北部城市中元音移位的明显时间演变。我们分析了整个社区人声变化的定量模式,以及每个说话者的生活经验和态度。我们发现Shift的某些功能在社区一级发生了巨大的逆转,并且在整个社区的历史条件下,不断变化的人口统计和社会关注点使讲话者有可能推进或逆转Shift。尽管有人认为区域化的声音变化反转反映了说话人的本地化倾向的增加,但在这个社区中,我们建议反转反映出种族化本地化的定义发生了变化,包括年轻的说话者的定位偏离了特定的象征性本地人格,而这些人格特征已与转移。
更新日期:2019-12-13
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