Kamala Harris Linguistics:
a Bibliography
My sources for the article "Kamala and the Comedian." The canon on African American English is vast; this is by no means complete. If you want one and hit a paywall, send me a note and I'll see what I can do.
Cutler, Cecilia. “‘Keepin’ It Real’: White Hip-Hoppers’ Discourses of Language, Race, and Authenticity.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, vol. 13, no. 2, Dec. 2003, pp. 211–33, https://doi.org/10.1525/jlin.2003.13.2.211.
D’Onofrio, Annette, and Amelia Stecker. “The Social Meaning of Stylistic Variability: Sociophonetic (in)Variance in United States Presidential Candidates’ Campaign Rallies.” Language in Society, vol. 51, no. 1, Feb. 2022, pp. 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404520000718.
Fasold, Ralph W. “Ebonic Need Not Be English.” AAA: Arbeiten Aus Anglistic Und Amerikanistik, vol. 25, no. 2, 2000, pp. 149–60, https://www.jstor.org/stable/43025634.
Grieve, Jack, et al. “Mapping Lexical Innovation on American Social Media.” Journal of English Linguistics, vol. 46, no. 4, 2018, pp. 293–319, https://doi.org/10.1177/0075424218793191.
Holliday, Nicole. “Complex Variation in the Construction of a Sociolinguistic Persona: The Case of Vice President Kamala Harris.” American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage, vol. 99, no. 2, May 2024, pp. 135–66, https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-10867240.
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Jones, Taylor. “A Look at Regional Variation in African American English Accents.” Language Jones, 26 Mar. 2021, https://www.languagejones.com/blog-1/2021/3/9/a-look-at-regional-variation-in-african-american-english-accents.
---. “Toward a Description of African American Vernacular English Dialect Regions Using ‘Black Twitter.’” American Speech, vol. 90, Nov. 2015, pp. 403–40, https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3442117.
---. Variation in African American English: The Great Migration and Regional Differentiation. 2020. University of Pennsylvania, https://repository.upenn.edu/entities/publication/05ea8c79-faf4-47d2-805a-0f7111c79e27.
Rickford, John Russell. “Unequal Partnership: Sociolinguistics and the African American Speech Community.” Language in Society, vol. 26, no. 2, June 1997, pp. 161–97, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404500020893.
Sclafani, Jennifer. Talking Donald Trump: A Sociolinguistic Study of Style, Metadiscourse, and Political Identity. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Seright, Orin Dale. “Double Negatives in Standard Modern English.” American Speech, vol. 41, no. 2, May 1966, p. 123, https://doi.org/10.2307/453131.
Slaughter, Christine, et al. “Black Women: Keepers of Democracy, the Democratic Process, and the Democratic Party.” Politics & Gender, vol. 20, no. 1, Mar. 2024, pp. 162–81, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X23000417.
Weldon, Tracey L. Middle-Class African American English. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Wright, Andrene Z. “Telling the Tale: Black Women Politicians and Their Use of Experiential Rhetoric.” Politics & Gender, vol. 19, no. 4, Dec. 2023, pp. 1007–34, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X23000077.