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New perspectives on language variety in the South : historical and contemporary approaches /

The third installment in the landmark LAVIS (Language Variety in the South) series, New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches brings together essays devoted to the careful examination and elucidation of the rich linguistic diversity of the American Sou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Picone, Michael D. (Editor ), Davies, Catherine Evans (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction
  • Michael D. Picone and Catherine Evans Davies; Part I. Historical Approaches; Indigenous Languages; 2. American Indian Languages of the Southeast: An Introduction
  • Pamela Munro; 3. A Profile of the Caddo Language
  • Wallace Chafe; 4. The Ofo Language of Louisiana: Recovery of Grammar and Typology
  • Robert L. Rankin; 5. Timucua-ta: Muskogean Parallels
  • George Aaron Broadwell; 6. Pre-Columbian Links to the Caribbean: Evidence Connecting Cusabo to Taíno
  • Blair A. Rudes; Earlier Englishes of the South.
  • 7. The Crucial Century for English in the American South
  • Michael B. Montgomery8. Southern American English in Perspective: A Quantitative Comparison with Other English and American Dialects
  • Robert Shackleton; 9. Some Developments in Southern American English Grammar
  • Jan Tillery; 10. Francis Lieber's Americanisms as an Early Source on Southern Speech
  • Stuart Davis; 11. Earlier Southern Englishes in Black and White: Corpus-Based Approaches
  • Edgar W. Schneider; The African Diaspora; 12. Some Early Creole-Like Data from Slave Speakers: The Island of St. Helena, 1695-1711
  • Laura Wright.
  • 13. Regional Variation in Nineteenth-Century African American English
  • Gerard Van Herk14. Prima Facie Evidence for the Persistence of Creole Features in AfricanAmericanEnglish and Evidence for Residual Creole
  • David Sutcliffe; 15. The Linguistic Status of Gullah-Geechee: Divergent Phonological Processes
  • Thomas B. Klein; Earlier French of the Gulf South; 16. French Dialects of Louisiana: A Revised Typology
  • Michael D. Picone; 17. From French to English in Louisiana: The Prudhomme Family's Story
  • Connie C. Eble; Part II. Contemporary Approaches; Across the South.
  • 18. The South in DARE Revisited
  • Joan Houston Hall and Luanne von Schneidemesser19. The South: Still Different
  • Dennis R. Preston; 20. Demography as Destiny? Population Change and the Future of Southern American English
  • Guy Bailey; English in the Contemporary South: Persistence and Change; 21. A Century of Sound Change in Alabama
  • Crawford Feagin; 22. Various Variation Aggregates in the LAMSAS South
  • John Nerbonne; 23. The Persistence of Dialect Features
  • Sylvie Dubois and Barbara Horvath; English in the Contemporary South: Discourse Approaches.
  • 24. Southern Storytelling: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
  • Catherine Evans Davies25. The Southern and Southwestern Discourse Styles of Two Texas Women
  • Judith M. Bean; 26. We Ain't Done Yet: Dialect Depiction and Language Ideology
  • Rachel Shuttlesworth Thompson; English in the Contemporary South: African American Language Issues; 27. Race, Racialism, and the Study of Language Evolution in America
  • Salikoko Mufwene; 28. The Language of Black Women in the Smoky Mountain Region of Appalachia
  • Christine Mallinson and Becky Childs.
  • 29. The Sound Symbolism of Self in Innovative Naming Practices inan African American Community
  • Janis B. Nuckolls and Linda Beito.