During the 2016 presidential election, broad support for Donald Trump came from most communities in Appalachia, where he received 63 percent of the vote. A great deal of national attention was ...

We may think of home as a place or feeling, but for Rachel Hargrave, home is connected to how we speak. Rachel Hargrave is one of 14 recipients of the Fralin Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

Everyone who has heard the stereotypes of Appalachian hillbillies and every “misguided individual” who has described Appalachian speech as incorrect should take a look at “Talking Appalachian,” edited ...

To say Kirk Hazen is surprised by how some folks are reacting to his theory that there is no incorrect way of speaking is an understatement. Hazen, a 30-year-old linguistics professor at West Virginia ...

Editor’s note: Read the full report on West Virginia University linguist Kirk Hazen’s foray into Pineville with his West Virginia Dialect Project on Page 7A. United Way of Southern West Virginia ...

Pineville, W.Va. — In a county beyond the reach of any four-lane highway, a young couple chuckles and swivels in their chairs as they start telling for posterity the story of how they met. "You want ...