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West Virginia UniversityThis article investigates an external variable critical to the understanding of sociolinguisticvariation in a rural, tri-ethnic community in the Southern United States. Cultural identity, theorientation of the speaker to the community, was first observed in variationist work by Labov(1963) but has not been regularly analyzed as have sex, age, and ethnicity. Cultural identity ispostulated as a speaker’s orientation to the local and larger regional cultures, and in WarrenCounty, North Carolina, this orientation correlates strongly with vernacular variants of presentand past tense be. For copula absence (e.g. They real nice people), was regularization (e.g. Wewas going), and past tense wont (e.g. We wont gonna go), the cultural identity of the speakerhad statistically significant effects on language variation. To understand language variation in thiscommunity, the interactions of cultural identity and other external variables must be considered.*
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