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Author : Eva Mae Burkett
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0810811510
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Author : Walt Wolfram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041263638
Author : Walt Wolfram,Natalie Schilling
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118391457
The new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field of American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences. Now accompanied by a companion website with an extensive array of sound files, video clips, and other online materials to enhance and illustrate discussions in the text Features brand new chapters that cover the very latest topics, such as Levels of Dialect, Regional Varieties of English, Gender and Language Variation, The Application of Dialect Study, and Dialect Awareness: Extending Application, as well as new exercises with online answers Updated to contain dialect samples from a wider array of US regions Written for students taking courses in dialect studies, variationist sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, and requires no pre-knowledge of linguistics Includes a glossary and extensive appendix of the pronunciation, grammatical, and lexical features of American English dialects
Author : J. L. Dillard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317899600
This impressive volume provides a chronological, narrative account of the development of American English from its earliest origins to the present day.
Author : Zoltan Kovecses
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781551112299
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 : Lewis Herman,Marguerite Shalett Herman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135856946
This standard text, now in paperback for the first time-- the companion volume to Foreign Dialects-- AmericanDialects offers representative dialects of every major section of the United States. In each case, a general description and history of the dialect is given, followed by an analysis of vowel and consonant peculiarities, of its individual lilt and rhythm, and of its grammar variations. There are also lists of the idioms and idiomatic expressions that distinguish each dialect and exercises using them. American Dialects also includes musical inflection charts and diagrams showing the placement of lips, tongue, and breath.
Author : Richard W. Bailey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199913404
When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue? A wide-ranging account of American English, Richard Bailey's Speaking American investigates the history and continuing evolution of our language from the sixteenth century to the present. The book is organized in half-century segments around influential centers: Chesapeake Bay (1600-1650), Boston (1650-1700), Charleston (1700-1750), Philadelphia (1750-1800), New Orleans (1800-1850), New York (1850-1900), Chicago (1900-1950), Los Angeles (1950-2000), and Cyberspace (2000-present). Each of these places has added new words, new inflections, new ways of speaking to the elusive, boisterous, ever-changing linguistic experiment that is American English. Freed from British constraints of unity and propriety, swept up in rapid social change, restless movement, and a thirst for innovation, Americans have always been eager to invent new words, from earthy frontier expressions like "catawampously" (vigorously) and "bung-nipper" (pickpocket), to West African words introduced by slaves such as "goober" (peanut) and "gumbo" (okra), to urban slang such as "tagging" (spraying graffiti) and "crew" (gang). Throughout, Bailey focuses on how people speak and how speakers change the language. The book is filled with transcripts of arresting voices, precisely situated in time and space: two justices of the peace sitting in a pumpkin patch trying an Indian for theft; a crowd of Africans lounging on the waterfront in Philadelphia discussing the newly independent nation in their home languages; a Chicago gangster complaining that his pocket had been picked; Valley Girls chattering; Crips and Bloods negotiating their gang identities in LA; and more. Speaking American explores--and celebrates--the endless variety and remarkable inventiveness that have always been at the heart of American English.
Author : Marianna Di Paolo,Arthur K. Spears
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317916185
Languages and Dialects in the U.S. is a concise introduction to linguistic diversity in the U.S. for students with little to no background in linguistics. The goal of the editors of this collection of fourteen chapters, written by leading experts on the language varieties discussed, is to offer students detailed insight into the languages they speak or hear around them, grounded in comprehensive coverage of the linguistic systems underpinning them. The book begins with "setting the stage" chapters, introducing the sociocultural context of the languages and dialects featured in the book. The remaining chapters are each devoted to particular U.S. dialects and varieties of American English, each with problem sets and suggested further readings to reinforce basic concepts and new linguistic terminology and to encourage further study of the languages and dialects covered. By presenting students with both the linguistic and social, cultural, and political foundations of these particular dialects and variations of English, Languages and Dialects in the U.S. is the ideal text for students interested in linguistic diversity in the U.S., in introductory courses in sociolinguistics, language and culture, and language variation and change.
Author : Dominik Borner,Eva Neubert
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638369992
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, University of Bamberg, course: Proseminar: English Varieties, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction Even to non-native speakers of the English language it is in most cases an easy task to differentiate between British and American native speakers by listening to their pronunciation. In this term paper the most characteristic phonological features of American English will be named and explained and an overview of the variety of dialects within the United States will be provided. This can be done best by using British Standard English – also known as Received Pronunciation (RP) – as reference accent and pointing out the differences to American English. 2. General American However, it is hard to work with the term American English when doing a phonological analysis of American speech since it covers a broad spectrum of different dialects. For this reason the term General American (GA), which is widely used and preferred by most linguists today, will be introduced and worked with. General American can be seen as the Standard English of North America, but in contrast to Received Pronunciation, it is not defined by social reputation or a specific geographical origin. Throughout the United States one can not really find a socially preferred accent that is commonly recognized as the standard pronunciation. There have been several different approaches to defining a Standard English for the USA and in this paper General American will be used in means of a range of accents that do not exhibit any of the North-Eastern or Southern features which “are perceived as regional by the majority of American speakers.” One has to keep in mind that GA is not “a single and totally homogeneous accent. But since its internal variation is mainly a matter of differences in the phonetic realizations of a system of phonemes that is by and large shared by all GA speakers, the generalization expressed in the notion ‘General American’ is useful in phonological terms.”
Author : Gavin Jones
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520921194
Late-nineteenth-century America was crazy about dialect: vernacular varieties of American English entertained mass audiences in "local color" stories, in realist novels, and in poems and plays. But dialect was also at the heart of anxious debates about the moral degeneration of urban life, the ethnic impact of foreign immigration, the black presence in white society, and the female influence on masculine authority. Celebrations of the rustic raciness in American vernacular were undercut by fears that dialect was a force of cultural dissolution with the power to contaminate the dominant language. In this volume, Gavin Jones explores the aesthetic politics of this neglected "cult of the vernacular" in little-known regionalists such as George Washington Cable, in the canonical work of Mark Twain, Henry James, Herman Melville, and Stephen Crane, and in the ethnic writing of Abraham Cahan and Paul Laurence Dunbar. He reveals the origins of a trend that deepened in subsequent literature: the use of minority dialect to formulate a political response to racial oppression, and to enrich diverse depictions of a multicultural nation.
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher : Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780394400754
A modified, one-volume edition of Mencken's classic analysis of American English
Author : George Philip Krapp
Publisher : New York, F. Ungar Publishing Company [1960]
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Americanisms
ISBN : UOM:39015026805625
Author : Juanita Virginia Williamson,Virginia M. Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015054065431
Author : Elizabeth Margaret Kerr
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015008463500
Author : Timothy Shopen,Joseph M. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015004169903
Part I: Standards -- Standard English: biography of a symbol / Shirley Brice Heath -- The rise of standard English / Margaret Shaklee -- English Orthography / Wayne O'Neil -- Part II: The new generation -- How Pablo says "love" and "stove" / Timothy Shopen -- An afterword: How English speakers say "finger" and "sing" / Timothy Shopen -- Creative spelling by young children / Charles Read -- Part III: Dialects -- Sections from Bengt Loman's "conversations in a negro American dialect" (with recorded material on side 1 of the cassette) / Timothy Shopen -- The speech of the New York City upper class (with recorded materail on sides 1 and 2 of the cassette) / Geoffrey Nunberg -- Part IV: Dialect encounters standard -- On the application of sociolinguistic information: test evaluation and dialect differences in appalachia (with recorded material on side 2 of the cassette) / Walt Wolfram and Donna Christian -- An afterword: The accidents of history / Joseph M Williams.