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Asia-Pacific Language VariationVol. 10:1 (2024) ► pp.67–105
Variation in Asian and Pacific Islander North American English
What the patterns of scholarship demonstrate about race in sociolinguistics
Within sociolinguistic research on English variation, Asian and Pacific Islander North Americans (APINAs) are
frequently described as an “understudied population” due to the relative lack of published studies that analyze these speakers or
communities. This structured literature review systematically characterizes the state of the field from a variationist
perspective. We find that while studies on APINAs have become more common in the last decade, different groups are represented
unevenly in the existing literature; for example, East Asian groups are commonly represented in the literature in contrast to
South Asian groups. Furthermore, the vast majority of variationist studies analyze phonetic and phonological variation, with a
theoretical focus on identifying participation in race-based varieties (ethnolects/raciolects) or in sound changes of the
“majority” population, rather than using the inherent diversity of APINA groups to bring attention to how race and ethnicity are
being used in Sociolinguistics.
Keywords: Asian American, Asian and Pacific Islander, variationist, race and ethnicity, North American English
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1Race and ethnicity in sociolinguistics research
- 1.2Asian Pacific Islander North Americans (APINAs)
- 1.3Background literature
- 2.Methods
- Criteria formulation
- Data collection
- Coding
- 3.Findings
- 3.1Qualitative overview
- 3.2Quantitative analysis
- 3.2.1Linguistic variable results
- 3.2.2Demographics results
- 3.2.2.1Geographic location
- 3.2.2.2Ethnic origin
- 4.Discussion
- 4.1Linguistic variables and demographics
- 4.2Nuanced understandings of race and ethnicity
- 4.3Speaker norms and “good speaker” ideologies
- 4.4Limitations
- 4.5Panning out
- 5.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
-
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