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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: LITERARY QUALITIES IN SOCIOLINGUISTIC NARRATIVES OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: LITERARY QUALITIES IN SOCIOLINGUISTIC NARRATIVES OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE American Speech, Vol. 76, No. 3, Fall 2001 Copyright © 2001 by the American Dialect Society rather old-fashioned, fairly aristocratic, white coastal United States Southern accent. However, I’m not going to talk about the speaker’s dialect today, even though this is the American Dialect Society annual luncheon . Lately, I have been returning to many of my old tapes to listen to the content of the interviewees’ conversations. The speakers, after all, were themselves not concerned with dialectology. It was the substance that was important to them, even when they were bored with the conversations, or suspicious or mystified about the unnaturalness of it all. So my topic today is not a traditional one for dialectologists: my subject is the discourse itself. It is a tradition of the Society to publish every ten years a monograph entitled Needed Research in American English. It is my hope that this luncheon address will suggest to the editors of the next volume of Needed Research that we turn ourselves to issues of discourse as well as the more traditional areas. Other sociolinguists have urged that we return to our tape-recorded sociolinguistic interviews and examine them from perspectives beyond dialectology—most particularly, as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage Duke University Press

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2001 by American Dialect Society
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0003-1283
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10.1215/00031283-76-3-227
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American Speech, Vol. 76, No. 3, Fall 2001 Copyright © 2001 by the American Dialect Society rather old-fashioned, fairly aristocratic, white coastal United States Southern accent. However, I’m not going to talk about the speaker’s dialect today, even though this is the American Dialect Society annual luncheon . Lately, I have been returning to many of my old tapes to listen to the content of the interviewees’ conversations. The speakers, after all, were themselves not concerned with dialectology. It was the substance that was important to them, even when they were bored with the conversations, or suspicious or mystified about the unnaturalness of it all. So my topic today is not a traditional one for dialectologists: my subject is the discourse itself. It is a tradition of the Society to publish every ten years a monograph entitled Needed Research in American English. It is my hope that this luncheon address will suggest to the editors of the next volume of Needed Research that we turn ourselves to issues of discourse as well as the more traditional areas. Other sociolinguists have urged that we return to our tape-recorded sociolinguistic interviews and examine them from perspectives beyond dialectology—most particularly, as

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American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage – Duke University Press

Published: Sep 1, 2001

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