Language, Borders and Identity

Dominic Watt lectures in Forensic Speech Science at the University of York, UK Carmen Llamas lectures in sociolinguistics at the University of York. She is co-editor (with Dominic Watt) of Language and Identities (2010) and (with Peter Stockwell and Louise Mullany) of The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics (2007). Her research deals primarily with phonological variation and change in the North East and the Scottish-English border region.

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• Introduction, Dominic Watt and Carmen Llamas; 1. Language and Identity on the Scottish/English border, Dominic Watt, Carmen Llamas, Gerry Docherty, Damien Hall and Jennifer Nycz; 2. Where North meets South?: Contact, divergence, and the routinisation of the Fenland dialect boundary, David Britain; 3. Borders in North American English, Charles Boberg; 4. Spanish language variation and ethnic identity in New Mexico: internal and external borders, Neddy A. Vigil and Garland D. Bills; 5. Language use and attitudes as stimuli for phonological change in border Uruguayan Spanish, Mark Waltermire; 6. Religion on the border: The effect of Utah English on English and Spanish use in the Mexican Mormon colonies, Wendy Baker-Smemoe and Breana Jones; 7. Borders within borders: Contexts of language use and local identity configuration in southern Galicia, Jaine Beswick; 8. Perceptual ideology across the Scottish/English border, Chris Montgomery; 9. Wales and Welsh: Boundedness and peripherality, Nikolas Coupland; 10. The political border and linguistic identities in Ireland: What can the linguistic landscape tell us?, Jeffrey L. Kallen; 11. Multilingual Luxembourg: Language and identity at the Romance/Germanic language border, Daniel Redinger and Carmen Llamas; 12. What counts as a linguistic border, for whom, and with what implications? Exploring Occitan and Francoprovençal in Rhône-Alpes, France, Michel Bert and James Costa; 13. Constructing national and international deaf identity: Perceived use of American Sign Language, Elizabeth S. Parks; 14. Borders, variation and identity: Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO), Kim Wilson and Paul Foulkes