American English 2nd Edition: Dialects and Variation (Language in Society) - Softcover

Wolfram, Walt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405112662 ISBN 13: 9781405112666

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

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).

From the Back Cover

This book provides a very readable and up–to–date description of language variation in American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender–based differences. The authors include situations ranging from historically isolated, rural dialects to developing, urban ethnic varieties as they consider the descriptive, theoretical, and applied ramifications of dialects in American society.

The second edition of American English includes new chapters on social and ethnic dialects, including more comprehensive discussions of Latino, Native American, Cajun English, and other varieties, samples from a wider array of US regions, and a separate chapter on African American English. Updated chapters and exercises as well as features such as a phonetic symbols key, and a section on the notion of speech community, combine to make the new edition a valuable resource for students and specialists alike.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405112662
• ISBN 13: 9781405112666
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 472