Roswell Voices
Roswell Voices
Director:
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.
Status of work:
Field work in progress, starting in 2002. Mostly direct CD recordings; later recordings on solid state digital recorder. Some full transcriptions have been completed.
Areas covered:
The city of Roswell, Georgia.
Subjects:
70 speakers, from three generations in age, both African American and nonAfrican Americans.
Nature of recordings:
Guided conversational interview expected to last one hour, focusing on social life in Roswell. Fixed format elicitation in which speakers read words from cards. 24 direct lexical questions.
Archives:
Original materials are archived in the Special Collections repository of the Library, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602. For access to original materials, contact the Linguistic Atlas Project office.
Selected bibliography:
•Kretzschmar, William A., Jr., Becky Childs, Bridget Anderson, and Sonja Lanehart. 2004. Roswell Voices, Roswell: Roswell Folk and Heritage Bureau. [booklet and CD]
•Kretzschmar, William A., Jr., Claire Andres, Rachel Votta, and Sasha Johnson. 2006. Roswell Voices, Phase 2, Roswell: Roswell Folk and Heritage Bureau. [booklet and CD]
•Kretzschmar, William A., Jr., Becky Childs, Bridget Anderson, and Sonja Lanehart. 2007. The Relevance of Community Language Studies to HEL: The View from Roswell. In Christopher Cain and Geoffrey Russom, eds., Managing Chaos: Strategies for Identifying Change in English, Studies in the History of the English Language, 3 (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter,), 173-186.