American English Dialects In Literature
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Author | : Walt Wolfram |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2005-09-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1405112662 |
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 | : Eva Mae Burkett |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780810811515 |
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Author | : Gavin Jones |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1999-10-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780520921191 |
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 | : Walt Wolfram |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2015-12-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1118390229 |
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 | : Lewis Herman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2014-01-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 113585694X |
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 | : Walt Wolfram |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Raymond Hickey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0521763894 |
The first book-length exploration of 'standard Englishes' with contributions by the leading experts on each major variety of English discussed.
Author | : Richard W. Bailey |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012-01-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 019517934X |
Speaking American shows what the English language looked like from various points on the American continent at crucial points in its linguistic history.
Author | : William Labov |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2012-12-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813933277 |
The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect Diversity in America, Labov examines the diversity among American dialects and presents the counterintuitive finding that geographically localized dialects of North American English are increasingly diverging from one another over time. Contrary to the general expectation that mass culture would diminish regional differences, the dialects of Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Birmingham, Buffalo, Philadelphia, and New York are now more different from each other than they were a hundred years ago. Equally significant is Labov's finding that AAVE does not map with the geography and timing of changes in other dialects. The home dialect of most African American speakers has developed a grammar that is more and more different from that of the white mainstream dialects in the major cities studied and yet highly homogeneous throughout the United States. Labov describes the political forces that drive these ongoing changes, as well as the political consequences in public debate. The author also considers the recent geographical reversal of political parties in the Blue States and the Red States and the parallels between dialect differences and the results of recent presidential elections. Finally, in attempting to account for the history and geography of linguistic change among whites, Labov highlights fascinating correlations between patterns of linguistic divergence and the politics of race and slavery, going back to the antebellum United States. Complemented by an online collection of audio files that illustrate key dialectical nuances, Dialect Diversity in America offers an unparalleled sociolinguistic study from a preeminent scholar in the field.
Author | : Walt Wolfram |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
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