American English

ebook ∣ Dialects and Variation · Language in Society

By Walt Wolfram

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Format

ebook

ISBN

9781118390221

Series

Language in Society

Author

Walt Wolfram

Publisher

Wiley

Release

21 December 2015

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Language Arts Nonfiction
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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

    • Format

    ebook

    ISBN

    9781118390221

    Series

    Language in Society

    Author

    Walt Wolfram

    Publisher

    Wiley

    Release

    21 December 2015

    Share

    Subjects

    Language Arts Nonfiction
    American English