Jewish Language Research Website

Cynthia Bernstein

Academic Affiliation

• University of Memphis, United States

Contact Information

• Email: cbernstn @ memphis.edu

Research Interests

Language Variation: Regional and Ethnic Varieties of the Southern United States

• Bernstein, C. To appear. Lexical Features of Jewish English in the Southern United States. In M. Picone & C. Evans Davies (eds.), Language Variety in the South III: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press.
• Bernstein, C. 2007. Language of Jews in the American South. In M. Montgomery & E. Johnson (eds.), The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture 5: Language. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press.
• Bernstein, C. 2006. Representing Jewish Identity through English. In J. Brutt-Griffler & C. Evans Davies (eds), English and Ethnicity: Signs of Race Series Publication. London: Macmillan Palgrave.
• Bernstein, C. 2006. More than Just Yada Yada Yada (Jewish English). In W. Wolfram & B. Ward (eds), American Voices. Oxford: Blackwell. 251-257.
• Bernstein, C. 2003. Jewish English in America. Language Magazine: The Journal of Communication and Education October: 41-44.