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Mountain talk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2007

Elizabeth Heffelfinger
Elizabeth Heffelfinger
Affiliation:
Department of English, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina 28723, Heff@email.wcu.edu
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Neal Hutcheson (producer and director). Mountain talk. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Language and Life Project, 2003. DVD $20.

Twenty years ago, I met many of my grandmother's fifty-odd cousins for the first time. Born in Panther Hollow, North Carolina (pronounced “Painter Holler”), my grandmother moved to the nearest town, Asheville, when she was a child. On the occasion of her seventieth birthday, many of the cousins she left behind came down out of the mountains to celebrate with her. A few of them spoke in a unique dialect, a “brogue” riddled with odd turns of phrase and vocabulary.

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BOOK REVIEWS
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Language in Society , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 293 - 296
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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