ABSTRACT
This comprehensive collection is the first full book-length volume to bring together writing focused around and inspired by the work of John Rickford and his role in sociolinguistic research over the last four decades. Featuring contributions from more than 40 leading scholars in the field, the volume integrates both historical and current perspectives on key topics in Rickford’s body of work at the intersection of language and society, highlighting the influence of his work from diverse fields such as sociolinguistics, stylistics, creole studies, and language and education.
The volume is organized around four sections, each representing one of the fundamental strands in Rickford’s scholarship over the course of his career, bookended by short vignettes that feature stories from the field to more broadly contextualize his intellectual legacy:
• Language contact from a sociolinguistic and sociohistorical point of view
• The political ramifications of linguistic heterogeneity
• The stylistic implications of language variation and change
• The educational implications of linguistic heterogeneity and social injustice
Taken together, The Routledge Companion to the Work of John R. Rickford serves as a platform to showcase Rickford’s pioneering contributions to the field and, in turn, to socially reflective linguistic research more generally, making this key reading for students and researchers in sociolinguistics, creole studies, language and style, and language and education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|9 pages
Introduction
part II|141 pages
Exploring Language Contact From a Sociolinguistic and Sociohistorical Point of View
chapter 5|9 pages
African-Indian-American South and Caribbean Worlds
chapter 6|11 pages
Ideophones in Guyanese Speech
chapter 7|6 pages
Systemic Linguistic Discrimination and Disenfranchisement in the Creolophone Caribbean
chapter 13|18 pages
Race, Class, and Linguistic Camouflage
part III|137 pages
The Political Ramifications of Linguistic Heterogeneity
chapter 18|15 pages
American Mestizos in the Philippines
chapter 19|7 pages
Family Matters
chapter 22|14 pages
Where Sociolinguistics and Speech Science Meet
chapter 24|10 pages
Using Pharyngeals Out of Context
chapter 25|9 pages
Sociolinguists Trying to Make a Difference
chapter 27|10 pages
Linguistics on Trial, Under Arrest, and in Prison
chapter 29|9 pages
Forging New Ways of Hearing Diversity
part IV|102 pages
The Stylistic Implications of Language Variation and Change
chapter 34|9 pages
Pidgin Pride and Prejudice
chapter 35|12 pages
‘I’d Better Schedule an MRI’
part V|73 pages
The Educational Implications of Linguistic Heterogeneity and Social Injustice
chapter 46|9 pages
‘I, Too, Am America’
part VI|19 pages
Vignettes