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American English: Dialects and Variation

English

By (author): Natalie Schilling Walt Wolfram

The new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field of American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences.

  • Now accompanied by a companion website with an extensive array of sound files, video clips, and other online materials to enhance and illustrate discussions in the text
  • Features brand new chapters that cover the very latest topics, such as Levels of Dialect, Regional Varieties of English, Gender and Language Variation, The Application of Dialect Study, and Dialect Awareness: Extending Application, as well as new exercises with online answers
  • Updated to contain dialect samples from a wider array of US regions
  • Written for students taking courses in dialect studies, variationist sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, and requires no pre-knowledge of linguistics 
  • Includes a glossary and extensive appendix of the pronunciation, grammatical, and lexical features of American English dialects
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  • Weight: 1066g
  • Dimensions: 203 x 252mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Dec 2015
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781118390221

About Natalie SchillingWalt Wolfram

Walt Wolfram is William C. Friday Distinguished University Professor at North Carolina State University and has authored numerous books including The Development of African American English (with Erik Thomas Blackwell 2002) and American Voices (co-edited with Ben Ward Blackwell 2006). His most recent book is Talkin Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina (2014). Natalie Schilling is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is co-editor of The Handbook of Language Variation and Change second edition (with J. K. Chambers 2013 Wiley) and author of Sociolinguistic Fieldwork (2013).

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