Download or read book Dictionary of American Regional English Introduction and A C written by Frederic G. Cassidy and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series capture the language spoken on America's main streets and country roads, words and phrases passed along within homes and communities, from east to west, north to south, childhood to old age. Built upon an unprecedented survey of spoken English across America and bolstered by extensive historical research, this series preserves the language with all its idioms and peculiarities.
Download or read book Dictionary of American Regional English Introduction and A C written by Frederic G. Cassidy and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities. Online index is at http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/18.
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Download or read book Dictionary of American Regional English D H written by Frederic G. Cassidy and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities. Online index is at http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/18.
Download or read book Dictionary of American Regional English DARE written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information on the "Dictionary of American Regional English," (DARE) provided by Luanne von Schneidemesser. The dictionary documents the varieties of English that are found everywhere in the United States, including words, pronunciations, and phrases that vary from one region to another. Notes that the book is published by Harvard University Press. Includes quizzes to match up regional phrases with definitions.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Varieties of English written by Raymond Hickey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of Varieties of English presents a comprehensive listing of the distinctive dialects and forms of English spoken throughout the contemporary world. Provides an invaluable introduction and guide to current research trends in the field Includes definitions both for the varieties of English and regions they feature, and for terms and concepts derived from a linguistic analysis of these varieties Explores important research issues including the transportation of dialects of English, the rise of ‘New Englishes’, sociolinguistic investigations of various English-speaking locales, and the study of language contact and change. Reflects our increased awareness of global forms of English, and the advances made in the study of varieties of the language in recent decades Creates an invaluable, informative resource for students and scholars alike, spanning the rich and diverse linguistic varieties of the most widely accepted language of international communication
Download or read book Dictionary of American Regional English written by Frederic Gomes Cassidy and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of American Regional English I O written by Frederic G. Cassidy and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities. Online index is at http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/18.
Download or read book A New Bibliography of Writings on Varieties of English 1984 1992 93 written by Beat Glauser and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-12-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuing expansion of research in dialectology, sociolinguistics and English as a world language has made the field increasingly difficult to survey. This bibliography is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the relevant publications of the past few years. Like its predecessor, it will prove an indispensable reference book. The collection is in four parts, dealing respectively with general studies, Britain and Ireland, the United States and Canada, and the rest of the world. There is a joint index in which the 2800 entries are classified according to specific areas, ethnic groups and major linguistic categories, thus making the bibliography easy to use with the greatest profit. The present bibliography complements the one compiled by W. Viereck, E.W. Schneider and M. Görlach, which covered the period from 1965 to 1983 and was published in the same series in 1984.
Download or read book An Index by Region Usage and Etymology to the Dictionary of American Regional English Volumes I and II written by Allan A. Metcalfe and published by Tuscaloosa : Published for the Society by the University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duke University Press publishes the index to the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE). DARE, which William Safire has called the most exciting linguistic project going on in the United States, documents the English language as it has been spoken for more than three hundred years. The index organizes words according to region, usage, and etymology and is an essential companion to DARE.
Download or read book American English written by Zoltan Kovecses and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2000-09-26 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cultural-historical (rather than purely linguistic) introduction to American English. The first part consists of a general account of variation in American English. It offers concise but comprehensive coverage of such topics as the history of American English; regional, social and ethnic variation; variation in style (including slang); and British and American differences. The second part of the book puts forward an account of how American English has developed into a dominant variety of the English language. It focuses on the ways in which intellectual traditions such as puritanism and republicanism, in shaping the American world view, have also contributed to the distinctiveness of American English.
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Download or read book Studying Dialect written by Rob Penhallurick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to the study of the dialects of English as they are spoken around the world, from the earliest dialect dictionaries of the sixteenth century to contemporary research emerging from the field of geolinguistics. Organised into ten thematic chapters, it explores and evaluates the methods and purposes of each approach to the study of dialectal variation, with full explanations of technical terms throughout. Illuminating one of the most productive fields of interest in language study, this compelling book is essential reading for students of dialect and regional difference in English.
Download or read book Regional Variation in Written American English written by Jack Grieve and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative text is the first to map regional grammatical variation in written Standard American English.
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