Author: Oliver Farrar EmersonPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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The Ithaca Dialect
Author: Oliver Farrar EmersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Dialect Notes
Author: Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia
Author: Charles Kendall AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia
Author: Charles Kendall AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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American Language Supplement 2
Author: H.L. MenckenPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307813444
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
The DEFINITIVE EDITION OF The American Language was published in 1936. Since then it has been recognized as a classic. It is that rarest of literary accomplishments—a book that is authoritative and scientific and is at the same time very diverting reading. But after 1936 HLM continued to gather new materials diligently. In 1945 those which related to the first six chapters of The American Language were published as Supplement I; the present volume contains those new materials which relate to the other chapters. The ground thus covered in Supplement II is as follows: 1. American Pronunciation. Its history. Its divergence from English usage. The regional and racial dialects. 2. American Spelling. The influence of Noah Webster upon it. Its characters today. The simplified spelling movement. The treatment of loan words. Punctuation, capitalization, and abbreviation. 3. The Common Speech. Outlines of its grammar. Its verbs, pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. The double negative. Other peculiarities. 4. Proper Names in America. Surnames. Given-names. Place-names. Other names. 5. American Slang. Its origin and history. The argot of various racial and occupational groups. Although the text of Supplement II is related to that of The American Language, it is an independent work that may be read profitably by persons who do not know either The American Language or Supplement I.
Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities
Author: Early New England Pronunciation as Reflected in Some Seventeenth Century Town Records of Eastern Massachusetts
Author: Anders OrbeckPublisher:
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Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Focus on the USA
Author: Edgar W. SchneiderPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902727603X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This volume presents fifteen original research papers by renowned specialists in their respective fields. A variety of research traditions are included, such as dialect geography and sociolinguistics, but also smaller sub-fields such as the study of slang and perceptual dialectology. Varieties studied include the South, the Eastern Seaboard, the Middle West, African American English, Cuban English, and others. A growing sense of unity in the discipline is reflected by recurring topics and methods across earlier boundaries between sub-disciplines. For instance, computerized data and statistical analyses are standard tools nowadays, and a few papers explicitly address the possibilities and limitations of these methods. The study of variation and change of linguistic varieties has largely replaced earlier, monolithic notions of dialect, and the question of change in dialects, the erosion of traditional speech forms under the impact of modern communication patterns and socio-economic developments, is investigated in several contributions. In general, a recent orientation towards the history and development of nonstandard varieties is reflected in the book — several papers study diffusion patterns of linguistic forms, or discuss the emergence of individual dialects or dialectal forms in a language contact framework. Altogether, the papers provide a lively illustration of and a fairly representative selection from ongoing high-quality linguistic research into American English.
American Pronunciation
Author: John Samuel KenyonPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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An American Glossary
Author: Richard Hopwood ThorntonPublisher:
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Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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