American English: Dialects and Variation, 2nd Edition (Language in Society, Vol. 25)
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Book Details
Author(s)
Walt Wolfram, Natalie Schilling-Estes,
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing
ISBN / ASIN
1405112662
ISBN-13
9781405112666
Sales Rank
#791,529
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
This book provides a very readable, up-to-date description of language variation in American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences.
- 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
