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Becky Childs

Associate Dean College of Arts and Letters & Professor

James Madison University

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College of Arts and Letters

Department of English

Becky Childs is currently serving as a College Of Arts And Letters Associate Dean College of Arts and Letters & Professor at James Madison University.

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James Madison University

Associate Dean College of Arts and Letters & Professor

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sociolinguistics linguistics applied linguistics communication english language ethnic studies language variation discourse analysis general linguistics sociology racial studies black experience social sciences intersectionality african identity interactional linguistics linguistic diversity linguistic theory african american english data collection western american literature language learning intercultural studies english today variety (linguistics) indigenous languages language science raciolinguistics global english sociolinguistic description lexical items subregional variation linguistic identity student voice accessibility ethics corpus linguistics natural language processing gender identity narrative women's studies feminist studies language resources migration studies social anthropology american literature gender theory cognitive psychology active ageing later adulthood deterioration modeling extinct language syntactic structure black feminism language corpus indigenous studies african diaspora racial groups ethnic group relation language symbiosis new urbanism urban society mass movements natural diversity language migration prosody (linguistics) art criticism online language sociolinguistic corpus building drag queens appalachian englishes interdental fricatives digital badging first generation undergraduates ethnic identity community language studies language culture world english grammar language english

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Southern English. New Cambridge History of English, Volume 5: English in North America and the Caribbean (2025)

You Ain’t From Here, Are You? Subregional Variation and Identification Among Young Appalachians. American Speech (2023)

J. Daniel HastyBecky Childs

geographyethnographysubregional variation

The View From Here. American Speech (2022)

Becky Childs

visual perceptionmethodological perspectivesprofessional developmentnursingqualitative researchnurse educationjournalismscene interpretation

Investigating Appalachian Englishes: Subregional Variation in the New Appalachia. Journal of Appalachian Studies (2021)

J. Daniel HastyBecky Childs

linguisticsappalachian englishesgeographysubregional variationhistorical linguistics

The Value of Interdisciplinarity in Linguistic Research. Crossing Borders Making Connections: Interdisciplinarity in Linguistics (2021)

methodological issuesphilosophy of languagelinguisticslanguage assessmenttransdisciplinary perspectivesapplied linguisticsconversation analysisdiscourse analysisintellectual discourseinteractional linguisticslinguistic researchlinguistic anthropologylanguagesociolinguistics

Ethnicity in Appalachia. Appalachian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century (2020)

racial groupsanthropologyracial studiesethnic studiesmigration studiesethnic group relationafrican american studiesethnicitycultural anthropologysocial anthropologyrace

Valuing a Variety of Voices: Using Digital Badges to Support Linguistic Diversity in First Year Composition. American Speech (2020)

support linguistic diversitylinguisticsmusical expressionapplied linguisticsfirst year compositioncomposition approachusing digital badgeslanguage variationlinguistic diversitycomposition studieslanguagemusicspeech communicationmusical compositionsociolinguistics

Data Collection in Sociolinguistics. Routledge eBooks (2018)

Christine MallinsonBecky ChildsGerard Van Herk

data collectionlinguisticssociolinguistics

Language and the Internet in the New South. Conference Proceedings from Language Variation in the South Conference (2018)

language migrationmedium communicationlanguage policycommunicationnew southlanguagemultilingualismmedia studiessociolinguistics

Southern Landscape and Language. Handbook of the American South (2018)

historical geographyhuman geographysouthern landscapelandscape architecturelanguage policyregional studieswestern american literaturelanguagelandscape archaeologycultural geographyenglish languagelinguistic ecologysociolinguistics

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Becky Childs

Associate Dean College of Arts and Letters & Professor

James Madison University

Affiliations

College of Arts and Letters

Department of English

Becky Childs is currently serving as a College Of Arts And Letters Associate Dean College of Arts and Letters & Professor at James Madison University.

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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Becky Childs

James Madison University

Associate Dean College of Arts and Letters & Professor

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Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

Southern English. New Cambridge History of English, Volume 5: English in North America and the Caribbean (2025)

You Ain’t From Here, Are You? Subregional Variation and Identification Among Young Appalachians. American Speech (2023)

J. Daniel HastyBecky Childs

geographyethnographysubregional variation

The View From Here. American Speech (2022)

Becky Childs

visual perceptionmethodological perspectivesprofessional developmentnursingqualitative researchnurse educationjournalismscene interpretation

Investigating Appalachian Englishes: Subregional Variation in the New Appalachia. Journal of Appalachian Studies (2021)

J. Daniel HastyBecky Childs

linguisticsappalachian englishesgeographysubregional variationhistorical linguistics

The Value of Interdisciplinarity in Linguistic Research. Crossing Borders Making Connections: Interdisciplinarity in Linguistics (2021)

Ethnicity in Appalachia. Appalachian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century (2020)

racial groupsanthropologyracial studiesethnic studiesmigration studiesethnic group relationafrican american studiesethnicitycultural anthropologysocial anthropologyrace

Valuing a Variety of Voices: Using Digital Badges to Support Linguistic Diversity in First Year Composition. American Speech (2020)

Data Collection in Sociolinguistics. Routledge eBooks (2018)

Christine MallinsonBecky ChildsGerard Van Herk

data collectionlinguisticssociolinguistics

Language and the Internet in the New South. Conference Proceedings from Language Variation in the South Conference (2018)

language migrationmedium communicationlanguage policycommunicationnew southlanguagemultilingualismmedia studiessociolinguistics

Southern Landscape and Language. Handbook of the American South (2018)

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