Contextualizing reversal: Local dynamics of the Northern Cities Shift in a Chicago community
Contextualizing reversal: Local dynamics of the Northern Cities Shift in a Chicago community
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DOI：
10.1111/josl.12398
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发表时间：
2020-09-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Benheim, Jaime
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作者：
D'Onofrio, Annette;Benheim, Jaime
本文考察了芝加哥一个社区的42名白色人的北方城市元音变化的表观时间演变。我们分析了社区范围内的声乐变化的定量模式，以及个别扬声器的生活经验和态度。我们发现，一些功能的转变是显着扭转在社区层面上，不断变化的人口和社会关注整个社区的历史条件，扬声器可能会提前或逆转的转变。虽然有些人认为，区域化的声音变化逆转反映了扬声器的越来越多的额外的本地方向，在这个社区，我们认为，逆转反映了种族化的本地性的定义，包括年轻的扬声器的方向远离特定的象征性的本地人物，已成为与转变。我们认为，声音的变化必须在其不断变化的地方背景下理解，因为它们可以被驱动的社会意义的变化，附加到与地方相关的功能和本地性的定义。
This paper examines the apparent time evolution of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift among 42 White speakers in one Chicago community. We analyse quantitative patterns of community-wide vocalic change alongside individual speakers' lived experiences and attitudes. We find that some features of the Shift are dramatically reversing at the community level, and that changing demographics and social concerns across the community's history condition which speakers are likely to advance or reverse the Shift. Although some have argued that regionalized sound change reversals reflect speakers' increasing extra-local orientations, in this community, we suggest that reversal reflects shifting definitions of racialized localness, including younger speakers' orientation away from particular emblematic local personae that have become linked with the Shift. We argue that sound changes must be understood in their evolving local contexts, as they can be driven by shifts in the social meanings attached to place-linked features and in definitions of localness.