American English: Dialects and Variation, 2nd Edition (Language in Society, Vol. 25)
Language: English
Published by Blackwell Publishing, 2005
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- Title
- American English: Dialects and Variation, 2nd Edition (Language in Society, Vol. 25)
- Author
- Walt Wolfram
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1405112662
- ISBN 13
- 9781405112666
- Edition
- 2nd Edition.
- 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
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About the Author
Natalie Schilling-Estes is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is co-author of Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue (with Walt Wolfram, 1997) and co-editor of The Handbook of Language Variation and Change (with J. K. Chambers and Peter Trudgill, Blackwell 2002).
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