Kirk Hazen is professor of linguistics at West Virginia University, where he is the founding director of the West Virginia Dialect Project and a Benedum Distinguished Scholar in the Humanities. His research, teaching, and linguistic service are all centered on social and linguistic patterns of language variation. His most recent book is An Introduction to Language, and he is coeditor of Research Methods in Sociolinguistics.

A much-needed, cohesive, and well-written book." —Mary Kohn, Kansas State University

• Foreword by Donna ChristianPrefacePart I. Linguistic and Regional Boundaries1. Just What and Where Are Appalachian Englishes?J. Daniel Hasty2. Phonological Possibilities in Appalachian EnglishesPaul E. Reed3. Grammar across AppalachiaKirk HazenPart II. Language in Society4. Discourse in AppalachiaAllison Burkette5. Identity and Representation in Appalachia: Perceptions in and of Appalachia, Its People, and Its LanguagesJennifer Cramer6. Language, Gender, and Sexuality in AppalachiaChristine Mallinson and J. Inscoe7. Language and Ethnicity in AppalachiaBecky ChildsPart III. Language in the Wider World8. Redneck Memes as an Appalachian Reclamation of Vernacular Authority, Language, and IdentityJordan Lovejoy9. Intersections of Literature and Dialect in AppalachiaIsabelle Shepherd and Kirk Hazen10. Teachers and Teens Making Sense of Identity, Place, and Language in Appalachian Secondary SchoolsAudra Slocum11. Appalachian Englishes and the College CampusStephany Brett Dunstan and Audrey J. JaegerAfterword by Walt WolframContributorsIndex

Kirk Hazen is professor of linguistics at West Virginia University, where he is the founding director of the West Virginia Dialect Project and a Benedum Distinguished Scholar in the Humanities. His research, teaching, and linguistic service are all centered on social and linguistic patterns of language variation. His most recent book is An Introduction to Language, and he is coeditor of Research Methods in Sociolinguistics.

A much-needed, cohesive, and well-written book." —Mary Kohn, Kansas State University

• Foreword by Donna ChristianPrefacePart I. Linguistic and Regional Boundaries1. Just What and Where Are Appalachian Englishes?J. Daniel Hasty2. Phonological Possibilities in Appalachian EnglishesPaul E. Reed3. Grammar across AppalachiaKirk HazenPart II. Language in Society4. Discourse in AppalachiaAllison Burkette5. Identity and Representation in Appalachia: Perceptions in and of Appalachia, Its People, and Its LanguagesJennifer Cramer6. Language, Gender, and Sexuality in AppalachiaChristine Mallinson and J. Inscoe7. Language and Ethnicity in AppalachiaBecky ChildsPart III. Language in the Wider World8. Redneck Memes as an Appalachian Reclamation of Vernacular Authority, Language, and IdentityJordan Lovejoy9. Intersections of Literature and Dialect in AppalachiaIsabelle Shepherd and Kirk Hazen10. Teachers and Teens Making Sense of Identity, Place, and Language in Appalachian Secondary SchoolsAudra Slocum11. Appalachian Englishes and the College CampusStephany Brett Dunstan and Audrey J. JaegerAfterword by Walt WolframContributorsIndex

Kirk Hazen is professor of linguistics at West Virginia University, where he is the founding director of the West Virginia Dialect Project and a Benedum Distinguished Scholar in the Humanities. His research, teaching, and linguistic service are all centered on social and linguistic patterns of language variation. His most recent book is An Introduction to Language, and he is coeditor of Research Methods in Sociolinguistics.

A much-needed, cohesive, and well-written book." —Mary Kohn, Kansas State University

• Foreword by Donna ChristianPrefacePart I. Linguistic and Regional Boundaries1. Just What and Where Are Appalachian Englishes?J. Daniel Hasty2. Phonological Possibilities in Appalachian EnglishesPaul E. Reed3. Grammar across AppalachiaKirk HazenPart II. Language in Society4. Discourse in AppalachiaAllison Burkette5. Identity and Representation in Appalachia: Perceptions in and of Appalachia, Its People, and Its LanguagesJennifer Cramer6. Language, Gender, and Sexuality in AppalachiaChristine Mallinson and J. Inscoe7. Language and Ethnicity in AppalachiaBecky ChildsPart III. Language in the Wider World8. Redneck Memes as an Appalachian Reclamation of Vernacular Authority, Language, and IdentityJordan Lovejoy9. Intersections of Literature and Dialect in AppalachiaIsabelle Shepherd and Kirk Hazen10. Teachers and Teens Making Sense of Identity, Place, and Language in Appalachian Secondary SchoolsAudra Slocum11. Appalachian Englishes and the College CampusStephany Brett Dunstan and Audrey J. JaegerAfterword by Walt WolframContributorsIndex