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""Identity and Ethnicity in the Rural South"" investigates the interaction of cultural and ethnic identity as realized in language variation. Through the quantitative and qualitative analysis of sociolinguistic data on the past tense of the verb ""be"" and on its absence, this work explains the synchronic and diachronic trends of language variation and several important social factors, including ethnicity, sex and cultural identity. This volume also informs the debates about the origins and contemporary synchronous relations of African-American vernacular English to other ethnic varieties.

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I would like to say that this is a good study and a good book. . . . [T]he presentation is clear and the argumentation convincing. It is sophisticated enough to be useful to advanced scholars, but it also includes numerous brief introductions and overviews that the nonspecialist or beginner will welcome. <br>--Brian Jose, Language in Society

I would like to say that this is a good study and a good book. . . . [T]he presentation is clear and the argumentation convincing. It is sophisticated enough to be useful to advanced scholars, but it also includes numerous brief introductions and overviews that the nonspecialist or beginner will welcome. --Brian Jose, Language in Society

I would like to say that this is a good study and a good book. . . . [T]he presentation is clear and the argumentation convincing. It is sophisticated enough to be useful to advanced scholars, but it also includes numerous brief introductions and overviews that the nonspecialist or beginner will welcome. --Brian Jose, Language in Society

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