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Speaking of Alabama : The History, Diversity, Function, and Change of Language /
Thomas E. Nunnally's volume presents essays by linguists who examine the speech varieties occurring both past and present across Alabama. Taken together, the accounts in this volume offer an engaging view of the major features that characterize Alabama's unique brand of southern English. W...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Exploring language in Alabama / Thomas e. Nunnally
- Multilingual Alabama / Michael D. Picone
- Southern American English in Alabama / Catherine Evans Davies
- Extreme North Alabama: cultural collisions and linguistic fallout / Thomas E. Nunnally and Guy Bailey
- Just what is the southern drawl? / Crawford Feagin
- The heart of Dixie is in their vowels: the relationship between culture and language in Huntsville, Alabama / Rachael Allbritten
- The monophthongization of [a?] in Elba and the environs: a community study / Anna Head Spence
- To [a:] or not to [a:] on the Gulf Coast of Alabama / Jocelyn Doxsey
- "They sound better than we do": language attitudes in Alabama / J. Daniel Hasty
- Code-switching between African American and standard English: the rules, the roles, and the rub / Kimberly Johnson with Thomas E. Nunnally
- College writers as Alabama storytellers: cultural effects on academic writing / Charlotte Brammer
- Tsalagi language revitalization and the Echota Cherokee / Robin Sabino
- Afterword: some thoughts about ways ahead / Michael B. Montgomery.