Variable r‐lessness in New Orleans English is a salient linguistic feature tied to local place‐
based identity. In this study, I examine rates of r‐lessness in the wake of Hurricane Katrina …

Place has been central to sociolinguistic research from the beginning. How speakers
conceptualize and orient to place can influence linguistic productions. Additionally, places …

New York City English (NYCE) and New Orleans English (NOE) demonstrate remarkable
similarity for cities located 1300 miles apart. Though the question of whether these dialects …

This chapter focuses on nostalgic mechanisms in relation to contemporary comics and
graphic novels. A nostalgic discourse seems to be consubstantial to comic culture, both as a …

Abstract The New York City working-class dialect is one of the most widely recognized and
iconic American language varieties, appearing in the speech of hundreds of film, television …

In New Orleans, there is a White, working-class dialect of English, sometimes called Yat, that
has several notable similarities with that of New York City. These similarities have been …

Annette Markham's Life Online (1998) documents an historical conjuncture in which the
visibility of the Internet in popular culture outpaced hands-on access for most Americans. At …

Variationist research has much to gain from deepening engagement with theories about
place, defined as space imbued with social meaning. One challenge that variationists face is …

In this paper, we present a focused perceptual dialectology study of variation in a single
metropolitan area: New Orleans, Louisiana, long overlooked by linguists. We asked …

San Diego State University Virginia Polytechnic Institute abstract: In New Orleans, there is a
White, working-class dialect of English, sometimes called Yat, that has several notable …