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Author: Emma Griffith Publisher: ISBN: 9780578743691 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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In the summer of 2019, a college student spent six weeks living on Smith Island, Maryland in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, interviewing its hardy inhabitants about their lives, their culture, and their island. Smith Island is certainly unique, having gained extensive recognition for its residents distinct accents and their historic Smith Island cake, however, its elevation of 0' coupled with erosion and rising water levels are threatening the very existence of the island and its people. Smith Island, Spoken features transcribed interviews from over a dozen islanders as they discuss a broad range of topics, from their families and careers to their hopes and worries for the island and its future.
Author: Emma Griffith Publisher: ISBN: 9780578743691 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
In the summer of 2019, a college student spent six weeks living on Smith Island, Maryland in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, interviewing its hardy inhabitants about their lives, their culture, and their island. Smith Island is certainly unique, having gained extensive recognition for its residents distinct accents and their historic Smith Island cake, however, its elevation of 0' coupled with erosion and rising water levels are threatening the very existence of the island and its people. Smith Island, Spoken features transcribed interviews from over a dozen islanders as they discuss a broad range of topics, from their families and careers to their hopes and worries for the island and its future.
Author: Paula J. Johnson Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801854842 Category : Work boats Languages : en Pages : 4
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Smith Island, the largest Maryland island in Chesapeake Bay, remains one of the most interesting communities on the Atlantic coast. Smith Islanders speak a sort of Tidewater English, are devoted to the Methodist faith, and maintain an intense relationship with the waters of the bay. For generations, they have relied on fishing, oystering, and crabbing for their livelihood and have developed workboats that reflect the conditions - both natural and cultural - of local waters. In The Workboats of Smith Island, Paula J. Johnson looks extensively at the remarkable variety of boats - documenting in fascinating detail their design, construction, and use - and the watermen who depend on them. Johnson identifies the three vessel types most common on Smith Island today: crab-scraping boats, deadrise workboats, and skiffs. Every Smith Islander, she notes, owns at least one workboat, and many have two or even three, requiring each for a different purpose - harvesting "peelers" (blue crabs in various stages of molting), oystering or crab potting, and providing basic transportation. Johnson talks with Smith Island's watermen and boatbuilders, as well as their families and neighbors, about the history and future of the island and about the boats that dominate the island's cultural landscape. She includes dozens of photographs and drawings of Smith Island's distinctive watercraft. The result is a singular portrait of a community inextricably linked to the water.
Author: Tom Horton Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393039382 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 340
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A classic of Chesapeake Bay literature, Tom Horton's An Island Out of Time chronicles the three years Horton and his family spent on Smith Island, a marshy archipelago in the middle of Maryland's famous estuary. The result is an intimate portrait of a deeply traditional community that lived much as their ancestors did three hundred years before, attuned to the habits of blue crab, oyster, and waterfowl. In a new afterword for this edition, Horton brings the story of Smith Island, and its people, up to the present.
Author: Sally Foster Publisher: Dutton Juvenile ISBN: 9780525651222 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 480
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Describes, in text and photographs, the geography and history of Chesapeake Bay's Smith Island and the day-to-day life of its inhabitants.
Author: Robert Macneil Publisher: Nan A. Talese ISBN: 0307423573 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 242
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Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference between men and women in how they adapt to linguistic variations? These questions, and more, about our language catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran—the authors (with Robert McCrum) of the language classic The Story of English—across the country in search of the answers. Do You Speak American? is the tale of their discoveries, which provocatively show how the standard for American English—if a standard exists—is changing quickly and dramatically. On a journey that takes them from the Northeast, through Appalachia and the Deep South, and west to California, the authors observe everyday verbal interactions and in a host of interviews with native speakers glean the linguistic quirks and traditions characteristic of each area. While examining the histories and controversies surrounding both written and spoken American English, they address anxieties and assumptions that, when explored, are highly emotional, such as the growing influence of Spanish as a threat to American English and the special treatment of African-American vernacular English. And, challenging the purists who think grammatical standards are in serious deterioration and that media saturation of our culture is homogenizing our speech, they surprise us with unpredictable responses. With insight and wit, MacNeil and Cran bring us a compelling book that is at once a celebration and a potent study of our singular language. Each wave of immigration has brought new words to enrich the American language. Do you recognize the origin of 1. blunderbuss, sleigh, stoop, coleslaw, boss, waffle? Or 2. dumb, ouch, shyster, check, kaput, scram, bummer? Or 3. phooey, pastrami, glitch, kibbitz, schnozzle? Or 4. broccoli, espresso, pizza, pasta, macaroni, radio? Or 5. smithereens, lollapalooza, speakeasy, hooligan? Or 6. vamoose, chaps, stampede, mustang, ranch, corral? 1. Dutch 2. German 3. Yiddish 4. Italian 5. Irish 6. Spanish
Author: Frances W. Dize Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 234
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Smith Island, Chesapeake Bay is the account of an uncommon place and the uncommon people who choose to live in its isolated environment. It is the history of the islanders' struggle to survive the ravages of nature and the depredations of enemy forces as well as a study of island tradition and the possibilities for the future of the islanders' unique culture.
Author: Francis Kitching Publisher: ISBN: 9780764338175 Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
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Seventy-five miles southeast of Washington, D.C., in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, accessible only by boat, is tiny Smith Island, where a 300-year-old culture has survived in singular isolation. For a quarter of a century in this unique setting, Frances Kitching operated a small, widely renowned restaurant and inn. Susan Stiles Dowell, working closely with her, gathered more than one hundred of her recipesmany of them from the generation-to-generation oral tradition. This is more than just a regional cookbook. In Mrs. Dowells sensitive and luminous telling of the lore and lure of this remote island, and in forty evocative photographs, colorful people and places come to life.
Author: Ralph W. Fasold Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107070643 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 577
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This work offers an introduction to the traditional topics of structural linguistics: theories of sound, form, meaning, and language change and also provides coverage of contextual linguistics, including chapters on discourse, dialect variation, language and culture, and the politics of language.
Author: Emma Griffith
Author: Emma Griffith
Author: J. Howard Adkins
Author: Paula J. Johnson
Author: Tom Horton
Author: Jana Kopelent Rehak
Author: Sally Foster
Author: Robert Macneil
Author: Frances W. Dize
Author: Francis Kitching
Author: Ralph W. Fasold