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Author : Eva Mae Burkett
Release : 1978
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 515/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis American English Dialects in Literature by : Eva Mae Burkett
Download or read book American English Dialects in Literature written by Eva Mae Burkett. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Author : Walt Wolfram
Release : 2005-09-02
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 662/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis American English by : Walt Wolfram
Download or read book American English written by Walt Wolfram. This book was released on 2005-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a very readable, up-to-date description of language variation in American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences. contains new chapters on social and ethnic dialects, including a separate chapter on African American English and more comprehensive discussions of Latino, Native American, Cajun English, and other varieties, includes samples from a wider array of US regions features updated chapters as well as pedagogy such as new exercises, a phonetic symbols key, and a section on the notion of speech community accessibly written for the wide variety of students that enrol in a course on dialects, ranging from students with no background in linguistics to those who may wish to specialize in sociolinguistics
Author : Walt Wolfram
Release : 1991
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Dialects and American English by : Walt Wolfram
Download or read book Dialects and American English written by Walt Wolfram. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. L. Dillard
Release : 2014-09-25
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 598/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A History of American English by : J. L. Dillard
Download or read book A History of American English written by J. L. Dillard. This book was released on 2014-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive volume provides a chronological, narrative account of the development of American English from its earliest origins to the present day.
Author : Gavin Jones
Release : 1999-10-19
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 191/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Strange Talk by : Gavin Jones
Download or read book Strange Talk written by Gavin Jones. This book was released on 1999-10-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
