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Here a thread about the poll results; AKA: What I learned on my summer vacation on Twitter as a privileged white male speaker of standardized English who got tenure as a linguistics professor without ever taking a single sociolinguistics course... https://twitter.com/psejenks/status/1275843511762341890
1) “standardized (US) English (varieties)” won the poll; @clmallinson reminded me that it’s just as important to highlight the existence of this variety as we would any other, as @acharityhudley and @clmallinson do in their 2010 book.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QMQWCLQ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QMQWCLQ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
2) I was convinced by arguments from @mixedlinguist and @lingulate made the case for "Mainstream US English (MUSE) varieties”, following Lippi-Green 2010, based on the idea that they that term avoids the prestige associated with notions of “standardization.”
3) I learned from @aprilbakerbell and @jessgrieser that having students name standardized US English as a collaborative exercise is an amazing pedagogical tool that I will use when I next have the chance, maybe in a Freshman seminar.
Thanks everyone for participating! I was very grateful to be part of this discussion.
