American English

Author : Zoltan Kovecses
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781460403099

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American English by Zoltan Kovecses Pdf

This book is a cultural-historical (rather than purely linguistic) introduction to American English. The first part consists of a general account of variation in American English. It offers concise but comprehensive coverage of such topics as the history of American English; regional, social and ethnic variation; variation in style (including slang); and British and American differences. The second part of the book puts forward an account of how American English has developed into a dominant variety of the English language. It focuses on the ways in which intellectual traditions such as puritanism and republicanism, in shaping the American world view, have also contributed to the distinctiveness of American English.

Author : Clive Oxenden,Christina Latham-Koenig,Paul Seligson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0194775216

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American English File: Level 1: Student Book Pack by Clive Oxenden,Christina Latham-Koenig,Paul Seligson Pdf

Author : John Algeo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139457323

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British or American English? by John Algeo Pdf

Speakers of British and American English display some striking differences in their use of grammar. In this detailed survey, John Algeo considers questions such as: •Who lives on a street, and who lives in a street? •Who takes a bath, and who has a bath? •Who says Neither do I, and who says Nor do I? •After 'thank you', who says Not at all and who says You're welcome? •Whose team are on the ball, and whose team isn't? Containing extensive quotations from real-life English on both sides of the Atlantic, collected over the past twenty years, this is a clear and highly organized guide to the differences - and the similarities - between the grammar of British and American speakers. Written for those with no prior knowledge of linguistics, it shows how these grammatical differences are linked mainly to particular words, and provides an accessible account of contemporary English in use.

Author : Lisa J. Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521891388

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African American English by Lisa J. Green Pdf

This authoritative introduction to African American English (AAE) is the first textbook to look at the grammar as a whole. Clearly organised, it describes patterns in the sentence structure, sound system, word formation and word use in AAE. The textbook examines topics such as education, speech events in the secular and religious world, and the use of language in literature and the media to create black images. It includes exercises to accompany each chapter and will be essential reading for students in linguistics, education, anthropology, African American studies and literature.

Author : Zoltan Kovecses
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781770484283

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American English by Zoltan Kovecses Pdf

This book is a cultural-historical (rather than purely linguistic) introduction to American English. The first part consists of a general account of variation in American English. It offers concise but comprehensive coverage of such topics as the history of American English; regional, social and ethnic variation; variation in style (including slang); and British and American differences. The second part of the book puts forward an account of how American English has developed into a dominant variety of the English language. It focuses on the ways in which intellectual traditions such as puritanism and republicanism, in shaping the American world view, have also contributed to the distinctiveness of American English.

Author : Salikoko S. Mufwene,John R. Rickford,Guy Bailey,John Baugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000428162

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African-American English by Salikoko S. Mufwene,John R. Rickford,Guy Bailey,John Baugh Pdf

This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field. It covers both the main linguistic features, in particular the grammar, phonology, and lexicon as well as the sociological, political and educational issues connected with African-American English. The editors have played key roles in the development of African-American English and Black Linguistics as overlapping academic fields of study. Along with other leading figures, notably Geneva Smitherman, William Labov and Walt Wolfram, they provide an authoritative diverse guide to these vitally important subject areas. Drawing on key moments of cultural significance from the Ebonics controversy to the rap of Ice-T, the contributors cover the state of the art in scholarship on African-American English, and actively dispel misconceptions, address new questions and explore new approaches. This classic edition has a new foreword by Sonja Lanehart, setting the book in context and celebrating its influence. This is an essential text for courses on African-American English, key reading for Varieties of English and World Englishes modules and an important reference for students of linguistics, black studies and anthropology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Author : Kenneth G. Wilson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780585041483

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The Columbia Guide to Standard American English by Kenneth G. Wilson Pdf

In the most reliable and readable guide to effective writing for the Americans of today, Wilson answers questions of meaning, grammar, pronunciation, punctuation, and spelling in thousands of clear, concise entries. His guide is unique in presenting a systematic, comprehensive view of language as determined by context. Wilson provides a simple chart of contexts—from oratorical speech to intimate, from formal writing to informal—and explains in which contexts a particular usage is appropriate, and in which it is not. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English provides the answers to questions about American English the way no other guide can with: * an A–Z format for quick reference; * over five thousand entries, more than any other usage book; * sensible and useful advice based on the most current linguistic research; * a convenient chart of levels of speech and writing geared to context; * both descriptive and prescriptive entries for guidance; * guidelines for nonsexist usage; * individual entries for all language terms. A vibrant description of how our language is being spoken and written at the end of the twentieth century—and how we ourselves can use it most effectively—The Columbia Guide to Standard American English is the ideal handbook to language etiquette: friendly, sensible, and reliable.

Author : Marv Rubinstein
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781589797260

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American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein Pdf

A compendium of American proverbs, expressions, slang, colloquialisms; British-US glossary; abbreviations and acronyms; and other various odds and ends. Widely used by non-native speakers and translators.

Author : James B. McMillan,Michael B Montgomery
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780817359362

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Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English by James B. McMillan,Michael B Montgomery Pdf

A collection of the total range of scholarly and popular writing on English as spoken from Maryland to Texas and from Kentucky to Florida The only book-length bibliography on the speech of the American South, this volume focuses on the pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, naming practices, word play, and other aspects of language that have interested researchers and writers for two centuries. Compiled here are the works of linguists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and educators, as well as popular commentators. With over 3,800 entries, this invaluable resource is a testament to the significance of Southern speech, long recognized as a distinguishing feature of the South, and the abiding interest of Southerners in their speech as a mark of their identity. The entries encompass Southern dialects in all their distinctive varieties—from Appalachian to African American, and sea islander to urbanite.

Author : Joey L. Dillard
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110885002

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Toward a Social History of American English by Joey L. Dillard Pdf

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Author : J. L. Dillard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317899594

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A History of American English by J. L. Dillard Pdf

This impressive volume provides a chronological, narrative account of the development of American English from its earliest origins to the present day.

Author : D. W. Cummings
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801834430

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American English Spelling by D. W. Cummings Pdf

In this study of the English language as it is spelled in America, D. W. Cummings demonstrates that behind the apparent disorder of spelling in American English lies a self-regulating and self-reorganizing system that is responsive to four kinds of imperative: phonetic, semantic, etymological, and systemic. Cummings offers a systematic theory of orthography and applies this theory to the American English vocabulary with numerous examples. Cummings also describes the explication of written words into their elements, particles, and processes, and he sets out the tactical and procedural rules that control the distribution and sequencing of vowels and consonants. In the largest section of the book, he provides an exhaustive description of the major and minor correspondences between the sounds of American English words and their spellings. An essential reference work, American English Spelling moves beyond questions of how words are spelled to an understanding of why they are spelled as they are.

Author : Brian Hart,Herbert Puchta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521733618

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American English in Mind Level 3 Teacher's Edition by Brian Hart,Herbert Puchta Pdf

American English in Mind is an integrated, four-skills course for beginner to advanced teenage learners of American English. The American English in Mind Level 3 Teacher's Edition provides an overview of course pedagogy, teaching tips from Mario Rinvolucri, interleaved step-by-step lesson plans, audio scripts, Workbook answer keys, supplementary grammar practice exercises, communication activities, entry tests, and other useful resources.

Author : P. David Seaman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110811766

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Modern Greek and American English in Contact by P. David Seaman Pdf

Author : Richard Spears,Betty Birner,Steven Kleinedler,Luc Nisset
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780071741323

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McGraw-Hill's Conversational American English by Richard Spears,Betty Birner,Steven Kleinedler,Luc Nisset Pdf

Learn more than 3,000 English expressions and speak and understand the language easily As a new speaker of English, you may hear some expressions in your daily conversations that you do not understand--yet. McGraw-Hill's Conversational American English will help you learn these expressions, so not only do you know what a person is saying to you, but that you can use the expression yourself! More than 3,000 expressions are organized by theme, so you can find what you are looking for quickly. And each topic is illustrated to further help you understand context. The book features: Common expressions are batched into 350 themes, ranging from general greetings and asking how someone is, to the more specific needs, like showing disbelief, asking someone’s intentions, and expressions for a forgotten word or name A comprehensive thematic glossary provides an additional means for the learner to locate expressions by key words and concepts Topics include: Basic Social Encounters, Greetings, Small Talk, Introductions, Ending a Conversation, Good-Byes, Agreeing, Disagreeing Conversational Encounters, Focusing Attention, Launching the Conversation, Making Friends, Complex Matters, Disputes, Discussion and Resolution, Polite Encounters, Prefaces, Communication Barriers