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Language variety in the South revisited /

Top linguists from diverse fields address language varieties in the South. "Language Variety in the South Revisited" is a comprehensive collection of new research on southern United States English by foremost scholars of regional language variation. Like its predecessor, "Language Var...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bernstein, Cynthia Goldin, 1947- (Editor ), Nunnally, Thomas (Editor ), Sabino, Robin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012, ©1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : perspectives on language variety in the south ; Language variety in the South : a retrospective and assessment / Michael Montgomery
  • Southern American English : a prospective / Guy Bailey
  • Part one. Language contact with emphasis on the African diaspora ; Earlier Black English revisited / Edgar W Schneider
  • An early representation of African-American English / Marianne Cooley
  • Challenges and problems of recorded interviews / Jeutonne P. Brewer
  • The variable persistence of Southern vernacular sounds in the speech of inner-city Black Detroiters / Walter F. Edwards
  • Southern speech and self-expression in an African-American woman's story / Barbara Johnstone
  • Ambrose Gonzales's Gullah : what it may tell us about variation / Katherine Wyly Mille
  • Gullah's development : myth and sociohistorical evidence / Salikoko S. Mufwene
  • The African contribution to Southern states English / Crawford Feagin
  • Colonial society and the development of Louisiana Creole / Tom Klingler
  • Code-switching and loss of inflection in Louisiana French / Michael D. Picone
  • Ethnic identity, Americanization, and survival of the mother tongue : the first- vs. the second-generation Chinese of professionals in Memphis / Marvin K.L. Ching and Hsiang-te Kung
  • Part two. Phonological, morphosyntactic, discourse, and lexical features ; The sociolinguistic complexity of quasi-isolated Southern coastal communities / Walt Wolfram, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Kirk Hazen, Chris Craig
  • Pronunciation variation in Eastern North Carolina / Bruce Southard
  • Variation in Tejano English : evidence for variable lexical phonology / Robert Bayley
  • Rule ordering in the phonology of Alabama-Georgia consonants / William C. Taylor
  • Solidarity cues in New Orleans English / Felice Anne Coles
  • Social meaning in Southern speech from an interactional sociolinguistic perspective : an integrative discourse analysis of terms of address / Catherine E. Davies
  • That muddy Mississippi of falsehood called "history" / Joan Weatherly
  • "Pictures from Life's Other Side" : Southern regionalism in Hank Williams's Luke the Drifter recordings / Thomas L. Wilmeth
  • The evolution of 'ain't' in African-American vernacular English / Natalie Maynor
  • 'Auntie( -man)' in the Caribbean and North America / Ronald R. Butters
  • The South in DARE / Allan Metcalf
  • DARE : some etymological puzzles / Frederic G. Cassidy
  • Expletives and euphemisms in DARE : an initial look / Luanne von Schneidemesser
  • LAGS and DARE : a case of mutualism / Joan H. Hall
  • Part three. Methods of sampling, measurement, and analysis ; The South : the touchstone / Dennis R. Preston
  • How far North is South? a critique of Carver's North-South dialect boundary / Timothy C. Frazer
  • Regional vocabulary in Missouri / Donald M. Lance and Rachel B. Faries
  • Geographical influence on lexical choice : changes in the 20th century / Ellen Johnson
  • Generating linguistic feature maps with statistics / William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.
  • Quantitative mapping techniques for displaying language variation and change / Tom Wikle
  • The role of social processes in language variation and change / Jan Tillery
  • An ethnolinguistic approach to the study of rural Southern AAVE / Patricia Cukor-Avila
  • Speaking maps and talking worlds : adolescent language usage in a new South community / Boyd H. Davis, Michael Smilowitz, Leah Neely
  • Resolving dialect status : levels of evidence in assessing African-American vernacular English forms / Walt Wolfram
  • Understanding Birmingham / William Labov and Sharon Ash.