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Appalachian English
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The Apalachian English
By: Mitchell Furniss, Chrysanthemumolive Ufagalilo, Hyunjin Kim Chipman & Thalia Bautista
Focus
- History
- Stigma/stereotypes
- Trends
Definition
Definition
a local English variety of southern Appalachia, also known as Smoky Mountain English or Southern Mountain English
Who & Where
Who & Where it's spoken
Who
Irish, Scott descent
Coal miners
Who
Where
Where
West Virginia; Eastern Kentucky; North Carolina; Northwestern Georgia; Northern South Carolina; western Virginia; Alabama; and Tennessee
History & Development
History
Originated from the settlement of the Appalachian Mountains by immigrants from:
Scotland, Ireland, England, and Germany in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The dialect evolved due to:
Geographic isolation
Limited contact with other regions
Influence of Native American languages
Economic struggles led to Limited access to education (led to negative stereotypes).
Stigma
- Lower Education
- Connected with the
- image of “country”
- Lower Intelligence
- Illogical or “strange”
Stereotypes
Characteristics
- The insertion of a back upglide to the end of a mid back rounded vowel (hawg)
- A front upglide to the eh sound (jughead)
Characteristics
Features & Examples
Trends
Education
- Higher dropout rate and lower college matriculation rate
- Lower funding for public schools
College Education
- Language use
- Change grammar
- Keep pronunciation
- Solidarity
Class participation
- Participate less
- Ask less questions
- Typically don’t like being pointed out or standing out
Degrees of Choice
- Choose degrees with less writing and reading and speaking
- Math
- Science
- Avoid history, English, political science etc.
Conclusion
The truth and fallacy of stigma
Are people changing the way they speak to fit in?
Can you judge a book by its cover?
Action
- Academic flexibility
- More respect for non-academic endeavors
- Greater willingness to accept “nonstandard” communication forms
Conclusion
Appalachian English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_English
Appalachian stereotypes : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_stereotypes
https://web.archive.org/web/20180728043530id_/https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/D01B7291FCFEF56627C1E6DF768BB000/S0047404500014548a.pdf/div-class-title-appalachian-english-stereotypes-language-attitudes-in-kentucky-a-href-fn01-ref-type-fn-a-div.pdf
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=appalachian%20english%20scholarly%20article&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart#d=gs_qabs&t=1685684412221&u=%23p%3Do9n4AvD2BowJ
Red Necks Coals Miner: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25474784