Jennifer Cramer
Office Hours (Fall 2022): sabbatical (email for potential meeting times)
B.A., Linguistics - University of Kentucky, 2004
B.A., French - University of Kentucky, 2004
M.A., Linguistics - Purdue University, 2006
Ph.D., Linguistics - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
Dr. Cramer's research interests are in the field of sociolinguistics. Her dissertation dealt with the linguistic production and perception of regional identity in Louisville. She is interested in perceptual dialectology, discourse analysis, and language and identity. She has presented her work at many national and international conferences, such as the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), the American Dialect Society (ADS), the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE), the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), and the Sociolinguistics Symposium.
She has published research papers in American Speech, Discourse & Society, English World-Wide, Southern Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Appalachian Studies, and Studies in the Linguistic Sciences. She also has several book chapters, including a co-authored piece on hip hop in Marina Terkourafi's (ed.) The Languages of Global Hip Hop and another on language regard in Betsy E. Evans, Erica J. Benson, and James N. Stanford's (eds.) Language Regard: Methods, Variation, and Change. Her book projects include a co-authored monograph (with Paulina Bounds, Tennessee Tech; Susan Tamasi, Emory) on dialect perceptions in the American South titled Linguistic Planets of Belief (Routledge, 2020), a co-edited volume (with Chris Montgomery, University of Sheffield) on dialect perceptions in the city called Cityscapes and Perceptual Dialectology (Mouton de Gruyter, 2016), and a monograph on the linguistic perception and production of regional identities in and of Louisville for the Publication of the American Dialect Society called Contested Southernness: The linguistic production and perception of identities in the borderlands (Duke University Press, 2016).
Books:
Bounds, Paulina, Jennifer Cramer, and Susan Tamasi. 2020. Linguistic Planets of Belief: Mapping Language Attitudes in the American South. London and New York: Routledge.
Cramer, Jennifer. 2016. Contested Southernness: The linguistic production and perception of identities in the borderlands. Publication of the American Dialect Society 100. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. [See http://pads.dukejournals.org/content/100/1.toc for full text]
Cramer, Jennifer and Chris Montgomery (eds.). 2016. Cityscapes and Perceptual Dialectology: Global perspectives on non-linguists’ knowledge of the dialect landscape. Language and Social Life 5. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Lippi-Green, Rosina, Rusty Barrett, Jennifer Cramer, and Kevin B. McGowan. (Forthcoming). English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States, 3rd edition. London and New York: Routledge.
Cramer, Jennifer and Allison Burkette. (Contract signed). The Social Life of Appalachian Englishes. London and New York: Routledge.
Articles:
Cramer, Jennifer. 2020. Identity and Representation in Appalachia: Perceptions in and of Appalachia, its people, and its languages. In K. Hazen (ed.), Appalachian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press. 69–83.
Cramer, Jennifer. 2018. Dialect variation in Kentucky: Eastern Kentuckian perceptions. In S.D. Brunn and R. Kehrein (eds.), Changing World Language Map. Dordrecht: Springer, Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73400-2.
Cramer, Jennifer. 2018. The Emic and the Etic in Perceptual Dialectology. In B.E. Evans, E. Benson, and J. Stanford (eds.), Language Regard: Methods, Variation, and Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 62–79.
Cramer, Jennifer. 2016. Perceptual Dialectology. Oxford Handbooks Online. Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935345.013.60.
Cramer, Jennifer. 2016. Rural vs. Urban: Perception and Production of Identity in a Border City. In J. Cramer and C. Montgomery (eds.), Cityscapes and Perceptual Dialectology: Global perspectives on non-linguists’ knowledge of the dialect landscape. Language and Social Life 5. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 27–54.
Montgomery, Chris and Jennifer Cramer. 2016. Developing methods in Perceptual Dialectology. In J. Cramer and C. Montgomery (eds.), Cityscapes and Perceptual Dialectology: Global perspectives on non-linguists’ knowledge of the dialect landscape. Language and Social Life 5. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 9–24.
Cramer, Jennifer and Jill Hallett. 2010. From Chi-Town to the Dirty Dirty: Regional identity markers in U.S. Hip Hop. In M. Terkourafi (ed.), The Languages of Global Hip Hop. London and New York: Continuum. 256–276.