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becky childs is professor and academic unit head of English at James Madison University. Her research on African American and Appalachian Englishes challenges assumptions and stereotypes surrounding these dialects and their speakers, while providing an intersectional lens for contextualizing the value of English language variation in contemporary society. Childs is a coeditor of Data Collection in Sociolinguistics, with Christine Mallinson and Gerard Van Herk, now in its second edition (Routledge, 2018).
Becky Childs; The View from Here. American Speech 1 May 2022; 97 (2): 220–224. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-9940590
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