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Author | : Scott E. Casper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : |
CD-ROM contains: Digital image archive of books, magazines, manuscripts, technologies, and readers to accompany text.
Author | : Joey L. Dillard |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2015-11-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110813343 |
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Author | : Anna Belladelli |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2013-05-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1443849030 |
American English(es) focuses on the manifold nature of a macro-regional variety of English which is better described in the plural form, thus enhancing the endless contribution of most diverse ethnic groups, such as those kidnapped from Africa to be employed as slaves, survivors of native American tribes systematically exterminated in the past, and, later on, European Jews escaping from pogroms, Europeans and Asians escaping from poverty, and, more recently, Central and South Americans, mostly Spanish speakers, emigrating to the USA in search of supposedly better living conditions. By tackling the notions of “minority”, “variety”, and “dialect”, this book singles out three language-related phenomena which are currently relevant to the academic and cultural debate concerning US society, namely the obsolescent representation of minority vs hegemonic varieties of English, the latest developments of the Spanish vs English controversy, and the increasing exposure of slang in public contexts. The multiple points of view on American Englishes, offered by the essays included in the present volume, draw on diverse and often contrasting approaches, ranging from corpus linguistics to cultural studies, from lexicography/lexicology to discourse analysis.
Author | : Robert Macneil |
Publisher | : Nan A. Talese |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0307423573 |
Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference between men and women in how they adapt to linguistic variations? These questions, and more, about our language catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran—the authors (with Robert McCrum) of the language classic The Story of English—across the country in search of the answers. Do You Speak American? is the tale of their discoveries, which provocatively show how the standard for American English—if a standard exists—is changing quickly and dramatically. On a journey that takes them from the Northeast, through Appalachia and the Deep South, and west to California, the authors observe everyday verbal interactions and in a host of interviews with native speakers glean the linguistic quirks and traditions characteristic of each area. While examining the histories and controversies surrounding both written and spoken American English, they address anxieties and assumptions that, when explored, are highly emotional, such as the growing influence of Spanish as a threat to American English and the special treatment of African-American vernacular English. And, challenging the purists who think grammatical standards are in serious deterioration and that media saturation of our culture is homogenizing our speech, they surprise us with unpredictable responses. With insight and wit, MacNeil and Cran bring us a compelling book that is at once a celebration and a potent study of our singular language. Each wave of immigration has brought new words to enrich the American language. Do you recognize the origin of 1. blunderbuss, sleigh, stoop, coleslaw, boss, waffle? Or 2. dumb, ouch, shyster, check, kaput, scram, bummer? Or 3. phooey, pastrami, glitch, kibbitz, schnozzle? Or 4. broccoli, espresso, pizza, pasta, macaroni, radio? Or 5. smithereens, lollapalooza, speakeasy, hooligan? Or 6. vamoose, chaps, stampede, mustang, ranch, corral? 1. Dutch 2. German 3. Yiddish 4. Italian 5. Irish 6. Spanish
Author | : J. L. Dillard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Perspectives |
ISBN | : 9783111748221 |
Author | : Éva Antal |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2019-09-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1527540308 |
This collection of essays highlights the great variety one finds in contemporary scholarly discourse in the fields of English and American studies and English linguistics in a broad and inclusive way. It is divided into thematically structured sections, the first two of which examine the motif of travelling and images of recollection in literary works, while the third and the fourth parts deal with male and female voices in narratives. Another chapter discusses visual and textual representations of history. The last two subsections focus on the rhetorical and theoretical questions of language. The pluralism of themes indicated in the book’s title can thus be regarded not as a limitation, but, rather, as evidence of its potential.
Author | : Joey Lee Dillard |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9789027978110 |
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Author | : John Harold Plumb |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Pachen, a leader of the resistance during the Chinese invasion of Tibet, and was held as a prisoner for 21 years before her release in 1981.
Author | : Thom Huebner |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027241238 |
In the third part some practical issues are raised by looking into the role of language and culture in teaching reading, foreign language policy in higher education, Hawaiian language regenesis, and gender neutralization in American English."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Zoltan Kovecses |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2000-09-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1460403096 |
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.