You Know My Steez: An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Study of Styleshifting in a Black American Speech Community

By H. Alim. 2004

160 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Natural Language Processing, Linguistics

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In Natural Language Processing

1. Hal Daumé Iii
2. Su Lin Blodgett
3. M. Goodwin
4. Hanna M. Wallach
5. H. Alim
6. Solon Barocas
7. Mary Bucholtz
8. R. A. Martínez

In Linguistics

1. M. Goodwin
2. Hal Daumé Iii
3. H. Alim
4. Su Lin Blodgett
5. Mary Bucholtz
6. R. A. Martínez

Citations in the corpus

• Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLP (2020, background): “…allocational harms; speakers of AAE are frequently penalized for not adhering to dominant language practices, including in the education system (Alim, 2004; Terry et al., 2010), when seeking housing (Baugh, 2018), and in the judicial system, where their testimony is misunderstood or, worse…”
• Spanglish as Literacy Tool: Toward an Understanding of the Potential Role of Spanish-English Code-Switching in the Development of Academic Literacy (2010, background): “Over the past three decades, ethnographers have debunked deficit notions about these nondominant5 students by demonstrating the skill and intelligence embedded in their everyday language practices (Alim, 2004; Goodwin, 1990; Heath, 1983; Orellana, 2001; Zentella, 1997).”
• “Whatever (Neck Roll, Eye Roll, Teeth Suck)”: The Situated Coproduction of Social Categories and Identities through Stancetaking and Transmodal Stylization (2010, background): “Work on style and stylization (Alim 2004; Eckert and Rickford 2001; MendozaDenton 2008; Rampton 1999) has made productive use of Bakhtin’s (1981) notion of stylization—“an artistic representation of another’s linguistic style, an artistic image of another’s language”—with many focusing on “styling…”
• Sociolinguistic Justice in the Schools: Student Researchers as Linguistic Experts (2014, background): “…their research and in their own writing style, minoritized varieties match and often surpass the hegemonic language in their rhetorical power and logical force (e.g., Alim 2004; Anzaldúa 1987; Labov 1969; Richardson and Jackson 2004; Smitherman 1977) and have an important place in public discourse.”