Perspectives on American English

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Perspectives on American English

Edited by: Joey L. Dillard

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1980

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Volume 29 | Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
General Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
PART ONE. Native English-Speaking Immigrants
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
British Recognition of American Speech in the Eighteenth Century Allen Walker Read Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	15
The Rise of the American English Vowel Pattern Herbert Pilch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
American English Dialectology: Alternatives for the Southwest Gary Ν. Underwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
PART TWO. The Sea and the American Frontier
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	95
Sea Terms Come Ashore George Davis Chase Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	101
Larrupin': From Nautical Word to Multiregionalism Margie Ivey-Dillard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
New York City and the Antebellum South: The Maritime Connection Marshall D. Berger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
Slang and Words with their Origin on the River Wpa Writers’ Project Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
Sailors' and Cowboys' Folklore in Two Popular Classics Jan Harold Brunvand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	147
The Origin of Mott in Anglo-Texan Vegetational Terminology Terry G. Jordan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	163
Communication in a Frontier Society Donald Hatley and Kathleen Thomas Severance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
PART THREE. Immigration and Migration
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	183
The American Language Stephen Graham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	191
The Study of the English of the Pennsylvania Germans Otto Springer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	195
The Yiddish is Showing Lilian Mermin Feinsilver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
The Ethnolectal English of American Gypsies Ian F. Hancock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	257
Spanglish: Language Contact in Puerto Rico Rose Nash Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	265
The Melting Pot and Language Maintenance in South Slavic Immigrant Groups Thomas F. Magner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
PART FOUR. Black English
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	289
The Language Behavior of Negroes and Whites Ernest A. T. Barth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	297
Texan Gullah: The Creole English of the Brackettville Afro-Seminoles Ian F. Hancock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
Black English near its Roots: The Transplanted West African Creoles John C. Birmingham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
Cut-Eye and Suck-Teeth: African Words and Gestures in New World Guise John R. Rickford and Angela E. Rickford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
The Creole 'Copula' that Highlighted the World John Holm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	367
Have/Got in the Speech of Anglo and Black Children Robert Berdan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	377
Interrelatedness of Certain Deviant Grammatical Structures in Negro Nonstandard Dialects Riley Β. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	393
PART FIVE. Pidgin English
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	403
American Indian Pidgin English: Attestations and Grammatical Peculiarities Douglas Leechman and Robert A. Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	417
Attestations of American Indian Pidgin English in Fiction and Nonfiction Mary Rita Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	427
Categories of Transformations in Second Language Acquisition Richard R. Day and Charlene Sato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	433
Chinese Telegrams Albert Dressler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	447
References to Introductions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	461

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eBook published on:

November 13, 2015

eBook ISBN:

9783110813340

Hardcover published on:

August 1, 1980

Hardcover ISBN:

9789027933676

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Reprint 2015

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Front matter:

8

Main content:

467

Illustrations:

6

Tables:

16

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4 Kte.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110813340

eBook ISBN: 9783110813340

Hardcover ISBN: 9789027933676

Keywords for this book

Amerikanisches Englisch; Dialektologie; Soziolinguistik

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