American English - Wolfram, Walt; Schilling-Estes, Natalie
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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…mehr

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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
Autorenporträt
Walt Wolfram is William C. Friday Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University, and author or co-author of 17 books and over 250 articles, including The Development of African American English (with Erik Thomas, Blackwell 2002) and American Voices (edited with Ben Ward, Blackwell 2006).Natalie Schilling-Estes is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is co-author of Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue (with Walt Wolfram, 1997) and co-editor of The Handbook of Language Variation and Change (with J. K. Chambers and Peter Trudgill, Blackwell 2002).
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"This book has become a staple in the study and instructionof American English... The second edition provides the samebalance of detail, clarity, breadth and sophistication offered bythe first edition, but with an improved organization and up-to-dateinformation. It is clear that the authors took seriously the taskof revising and updating this new edition so that its users couldenjoy the maximum benefits of its structure and contents. They willbe pleased to know that their efforts were not in vain. The bookwill undoubtedly continue to be used as one of the key texts in theinstruction of American dialects for many years to come."Journal of Sociolinguistics

"This is an indispensable book, not just for students but foranyone who wants to know how the English language varies in theUnited States and how this variation has been studied... It iscomprehensive, comprehensible and dense with detail." Languagein Society (of the previous edition)

"The strengths of the book include its style and theauthors' consideration of how the book might actually be usedas a text... the chapters are divided into subsections withhelpful headings; exercises calling for creative responses bystudents are scattered throughout... each chapter ends with ashort annotated bibliography for further readings." Language (ofthe previous edition)