Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Perspectives on Language Variety in the South -- 1. Language Variety in the South: A Retrospective and Assessment / Michael Montgomery -- 2. Southern American English: A Prospective / Guy Bailey -- Part One. Language Contact with Emphasis on the African Diaspora -- 3. Earlier Black English Revisited / Edgar W Schneider -- 4. An Early Representation of African-American English / Marianne Cooley -- 5. Challenges and Problems of Recorded Interviews / Jeutonne P. Brewer -- 6. The Variable Persistence of Southern Vernacular Sounds in the Speech of Inner-City Black Detroiters / Walter F. Edwards -- 7. Southern Speech and Self-Expression in an African-American Woman's Story / Barbara Johnstone -- 8. Ambrose Gonzales's Gullah: What It May Tell Us about Variation / Katherine Wyly Mille -- 9. Gullah's Development: Myth and Sociohistorical Evidence / Salikoko S. Mufivene -- 10. The African Contribution to Southern States English / Crawford Feagin -- 11. Colonial Society and the Development of Louisiana Creole / Tom Klingler -- 12. Code-Switching and Loss of Inflection in Louisiana French / Michael D. Picone -- 13. Ethnic Identity, Americanization, and Survival of the Mother Tongue: The First- vs. the Second-Generation Chinese of Professionals in Memphis / Marvin K. L. Ching and Hsiang-te Kung -- Part Two. Phonological, Morphosyntactic, Discourse, and Lexical Features -- 14. The Sociolinguistic Complexity of Quasi-Isolated Southern Coastal Communities / Walt Wolfram, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Kirk Hazen, Chris Craig -- 15. Pronunciation Variation in Eastern North Carolina / Bruce Southard -- 16. Variation in Tejano English: Evidence for Variable Lexical Phonology / Robert Bayley -- 17. Rule Ordering in the Phonology of Alabama-Georgia Consonants / William C. Taylor.

18. Solidarity Cues in New Orleans English / Felice Anne Coles -- 19. Social Meaning in Southern Speech from an Interactional Sociolinguistic Perspective: An Integrative Discourse Analysis of Terms of Address / Catherine E. Davies -- 20. That Muddy Mississippi of Falsehood Called History / Joan Weatherly -- 21. "Pictures from Life's Other Side": Southern Regionalism in Hank Williams's Luke the Drifter Recordings / Thomas L. Wilmeth -- 22. The Evolution of Ain't in African-American Vernacular English / Natalie Maynor -- 23. Auntie(-man) in the Caribbean and North America / Ronald R. Butters -- 24. The South in DARE / Allan Metcalf -- 25. DARE: Some Etymological Puzzles / Frederic G. Cassidy -- 26. Expletives and Euphemisms in DARE: An Initial Look / Luanne von Schneidemesser -- 27. LAGS and DARE: A Case of Mutualism / Joan H. Hall -- Part Three. Methods of Sampling, Measurement, and Analysis -- 28. The South: The Touchstone / Dennis R. Preston -- 29. How Far North Is South? A Critique of Carver's North-South Dialect Boundary / Timothy C. Frazer -- 30. Regional Vocabulary in Missouri / Donald M. Lance and Rachel B. Faries -- 31. Geographical Influence on Lexical Choice: Changes in the 20th Century / Ellen Johnson -- 32. Generating Linguistic Feature Maps with Statistics / William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. -- 33. Quantitative Mapping Techniques for Displaying Language Variation and Change / Tom Wikle -- 34. The Role of Social Processes in Language Variation and Change / Jan Tillery -- 35. An Ethnolinguistic Approach to the Study of Rural Southern AAVE / Patricia Cukor-Avila -- 36. Speaking Maps and Talking Worlds: Adolescent Language Usage in a New South Community / Boyd H. Davis, Michael Smilowitz, Leah Neely -- 37. Resolving Dialect Status: Levels of Evidence in Assessing African-American Vernacular English Forms / Walt Wolfram.

38. Understanding Birmingham / William Labov and Sharon Ash -- References -- Contributors -- Index.