The goal of this handbook is to provide readers with a wide range of analyses of both traditional and contemporary work on language use in African American communities in a broad collective.
Regional variation in written American English
by Grieve, Jack
fromStudies in English language
Regional variation in written American English
by Grieve, Jack
fromStudies in English language
Regional variation in written American English
by Grieve, Jack
fromStudies in English language
Based on the popular "How to Talk" feature in the alternative travel magazine "Monk", this savvy and often hilarious, region-by-region guide to the way Americans talk also provides a dead-on (and sometimes too strange) indication of how we think, how we behave, and what we hold …
Appalachian speech
by Christian, Donna, Wolfram, Walter A., Center for Applied Linguistics
This innovative and provocative work introduces complexity theory and its application to both the study of language and the study of material culture. The book begins with a wide-ranging theoretical background, covering the areas of dialect geography, the anthropological study o…
"The thoroughly revised new edition now includes a companion website with an extensive array of sound files, video clips, and other online materials to enhance and illustrate discussions in the text"--
This work provides an up-to-date description of language variation in American English, ranging from regional to ethnic to gender-based variation.
"The thoroughly revised new edition now includes a companion website with an extensive array of sound files, video clips, and other online materials to enhance and illustrate discussions in the text"--
"The thoroughly revised new edition now includes a companion website with an extensive array of sound files, video clips, and other online materials to enhance and illustrate discussions in the text"--
"The thoroughly revised new edition now includes a companion website with an extensive array of sound files, video clips, and other online materials to enhance and illustrate discussions in the text"--