Chapter 10 | Enhancements

10.1

Popular British performer and author Stephen Fry on linguistic descriptivism and language style.

10.2

Avideo of comedian Dave Chappell on style shifting/code‐switching between African American English and mainstream American English – or “talking white.” (WARNING: NSFW)

10.3

Rex O’Neal performing the Ocracoke dialect

10.4

How Rex O’Neal sounds in a sociolinguistic interview

10.5

Hear Rex O’Neal’s language style when he’s talking with his brothers

10.6

See how a young barista in an Austin, Texas, “puts on” a Texas accent in his interactions with customers.

10.7

Listen to President Bill Clinton’s use of Southern dialect features in his 2012 address to the Democratic National Convention. Does he seem to shift in and out of the dialect? If so, what might account for these shifts?

10.8

 Jamila Lyiscott’s TED talk in which she celebrates her three dialects/languages, all three of which are equally “articulate.”