Author: American Dialect SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Newsletter of the American Dialect Society
Author: American Dialect SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publication of the American Dialect Society
Author: A New Bibliography of Writings on Varieties of English, 19841992/93
Author: Beat GlauserPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027276803
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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.
Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English
Author: James B. McMillanPublisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817359362
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
A collection of the total range of scholarly and popular writing on English as spoken from Maryland to Texas and from Kentucky to Florida The only book-length bibliography on the speech of the American South, this volume focuses on the pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, naming practices, word play, and other aspects of language that have interested researchers and writers for two centuries. Compiled here are the works of linguists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and educators, as well as popular commentators. With over 3,800 entries, this invaluable resource is a testament to the significance of Southern speech, long recognized as a distinguishing feature of the South, and the abiding interest of Southerners in their speech as a mark of their identity. The entries encompass Southern dialects in all their distinctive varieties—from Appalachian to African American, and sea islander to urbanite.
Geschichte Der Sprachwissenschaften
Author: Sylvain AurouxPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110167360
Category : Historical linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 909
Book Description
Newsletters in Print
Author: Gale GroupPublisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9780787665104
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1462
Book Description
With descriptions of more than 12,000 newsletters in 4,000 different subject areas, this comprehensive resource is an invaluable research tool.
The Emergence of Black English
Author: Guy BaileyPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277834
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Debate over the evolution of Black English Vernacular (BEV) has permeated Afro-American studies, creole linguistics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics for a quarter of a century with little sign of a satisfactory resolution, primarily because evidence that bears directly on the earlier stages of BEV is sparse. This book brings together 11 transcripts of mechanical recordings of interviews with former slaves born well over a century ago. It attempts to make this crucial source of data as widely known as possible and to explore its importance for the study of Black English Vernacular in view of various problems of textual composition and interpretation. It does so by providing a complete description of the contents of the recordings, by providing transcripts of most of the contents, and by publishing a group of interpretive essays which examine the data in the light of other relevant historical, cultural, social, and linguistic evidence and which provide contexts for interpretation and analysis. In these essays a group of diverse scholars on BEV analyze the same texts for the first time; the lack of consensus that emerges may seem surprising, but in fact highlights some of the basic problems of textual composition and interpretation and of scholarly dispositions that underlie the study of BEV. The papers raise crucial questions about the evolution of BEV, about its relationship to other varieties, and, most important, about the construction and interpretation of linguistic texts.
Lexicography: Reference works across time, space and languages
Author: R. R. K. HartmannPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415253673
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages
Author: Nils LangerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110183375
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The text is a product of a conference held at the University of Bristol in April 2003.
Lorenzo Dow Turner
Author: Margaret Wade-LewisPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643363379
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The first biography of the acclaimed African American linguist and author of Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect In this first book-length biography of the pioneering African American linguist and celebrated father of Gullah studies, Margaret Wade-Lewis examines the life of Lorenzo Dow Turner. A scholar whose work dramatically influenced the world of academia but whose personal story—until now—has remained an enigma, Turner (1890-1972) emerges from behind the shadow of his germinal 1949 study Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect as a man devoted to family, social responsibility, and intellectual contribution. Beginning with Turner's upbringing in North Carolina and Washington, D.C., Wade-Lewis describes the high expectations set by his family and his distinguished career as a professor of English, linguistics, and African studies. The story of Turner's studies in the Gullah islands, his research in Brazil, his fieldwork in Nigeria, and his teaching and research on Sierra Leone Krio for the Peace Corps add to his stature as a cultural pioneer and icon. Drawing on Turner's archived private and published papers and on extensive interviews with his widow and others, Wade-Lewis examines the scholar's struggle to secure funding for his research, his relations with Hans Kurath and the Linguistic Atlas Project, his capacity for establishing relationships with Gullah speakers, and his success in making Sea Island Creole a legitimate province of analysis. Here Wade-Lewis answers the question of how a soft-spoken professor could so profoundly influence the development of linguistics in the United States and the work of scholars—especially in Gullah and creole studies—who would follow him. Turner's widow, Lois Turner Williams, provides an introductory note and linguist Irma Aloyce Cunningham provides the foreword.