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Author : Elizabeth Margaret Kerr
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015008463500
Author : Dominik Borner,Eva Neubert
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : 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 : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521763899
The first book-length exploration of 'standard Englishes' with contributions by the leading experts on each major variety of English discussed.
Author : Katrin Appenzeller
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640310364
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Duisburg-Essen (Englische Sprachwissenschaft), course: Hauptseminar: Language, Meaning and Use, language: English, abstract: The USA is one of the largest western countries. Its population amount to approximately 250 million people. Thus, American English is spoken by an immense number of people in the world. It is estimated that nearly 2/3 of all native English speakers use any dialect of American English. American English, as an independent variety, differs from British English and even weakens its hegemony. More and more, American language, culture, and business become an integral part of European society. Therefore, it is very interesting to investigate the significant characteristics of this language. To give the reader some background information there is a brief overview of the history of the English language in the USA at the beginning of the study. After that the term American English is explained and analyzed. Further, different linguistic features, among them pronunciation, spelling, grammar, and vocabulary, are described and compared to British English. In addition, sociolinguistic characteristics, such as regional and social dialects, are illustrated. As a result a conclusion follows.
Author : J. L. Dillard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317899594
This impressive volume provides a chronological, narrative account of the development of American English from its earliest origins to the present day.
Author : Thomas Edward Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : English language
ISBN : 0898940427
Author : Paul Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107088863
Is British English becoming more like American English? Paul Baker tracks the changes, trends and distinctions of both languages to answer this question.
Author : Salikoko S. Mufwene,John R. Rickford,Guy Bailey,John Baugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000428162
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 : Walt Wolfram,Natalie Schilling
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118391433
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 : Zoltan Kovecses
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781770484283
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 : Noah Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Spellers
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097075493
Author : Seth R. Katz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000711547
American English Grammar introduces students to American English in detail, from parts of speech, phrases, and clauses to punctuation and explaining (and debunking) numerous "rules of correctness," integrating its discussion of Standard American grammar with thorough coverage of the past sixty years’ worth of work on African American English and other ethnic and regional non-Standard varieties. The book’s examples and exercises include 500 real-world sentences and longer texts, drawn from newspapers, film, song lyrics, and online media as well as from Mark Twain, Stephen King, academic texts, translations of the Bible, poetry, drama, children’s literature, and transcribed conversation and TV and radio shows. Based on twenty years of classroom testing and revision, American English Grammar will serve as a classroom text or reference that teaches students how to think and talk not only about the mechanics of sentences but also about the deep and detailed soul and nuance of the most widely used language in human history.
Author : George Phillip Krapp,Gilbert M. Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136478284
Part of the series on American English from 1781 to 1921, Volume VIII includes a guide to the phonetics of American English with the purpose to provide a rational method of examining pronunciation, the most important of the practical aspects of speech. Also included is American English (1921) that reflects the progressive development of the author’s ideas on the subject over a forty-year period. It consists of a critical discussion of works on Americanisms, a list of ‘exotic’ or supposed Americanisms which appear in the primary collections of Americanisms, a list of ‘real’ Americanisms which do not appear in those works, a list of misunderstood Americanisms, and finally a bibliography.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110873900
