American Dialects
Language: en
Pages: 311
Authors: Lewis Herman
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-02 - Publisher: Routledge

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This standard text, now in paperback for the first time-- the companion volume to Foreign Dialects-- AmericanDialects offers representative dialects of every ma
American English
Language: en
Pages: 472
Authors: Walt Wolfram
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-09-02 - Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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This book provides a very readable, up-to-date description of language variation in American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences. c
Dialect Diversity in America
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: William Labov
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-17 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect
American Regional Dialects
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Craig M. Carver
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher:

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"Focusing on some 2,000 dialect expressions, [this book] traces cultural and historical forces that have shaped these speech regions and given them their charac
Speaking American
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Josh Katz
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09 - Publisher: Mariner Books

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Did you know that your answers to just a handful of questions can predict the zip code of where you grew up? Speaking American offers a visual atlas of the Amer