American Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast

✍ Scribed by Walt Wolfram, Ben Ward

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 283
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

American Voices is a collection of short, readable descriptions of various American dialects, written by top researchers in the field. written by top researchers in the field and includes Southern English, New England speech, Chicano English, Appalachian English, Canadian English, and California English, among many others fascinating look at the full range of American social, ethnic, and regional dialects written for the lay person

✦ Table of Contents

List of Illustrations......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
1 Language Evolution or Dying Traditions?The State of American Dialects Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes......Page 15
PART I THE SOUTH......Page 23
2 Sounds of the South Guy Bailey and Jan Tillery......Page 25
3 Defining Appalachian English Kirk Hazen and Ellen Fluharty......Page 31
4 If These Hills Could Talk (Smoky Mountains) Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, Bridget Anderson, and Neal Hutcheson......Page 36
5 Doing the Charleston (South Carolina) Maciej Baranowski......Page 43
6 The Lone Star State of Speech (Texas) Guy Bailey and Jan Tillery......Page 50
7 Speaking the Big Easy (New Orleans,LA) Connie Eble......Page 56
8 Sounds of Ole Man River (Memphis,TN) Valerie Fridland......Page 63
PART II THE NORTH......Page 69
9 Yakking with the Yankees (New England) Julie Roberts, Naomi Nagy, and Charles Boberg......Page 71
10 Beantown Babble (Boston,MA) Jim Fitzpatrick......Page 77
11 Mainely English Jane S. Smith......Page 84
12 Steel Town Speak (Pittsburgh,PA) Barbara Johnstone and Scott Kiesling......Page 91
13 New York Tawk (New York City,NY) Michael Newman......Page 96
14 Expressions of Brotherly Love (Philadelphia,PA) Claudio Salvucci......Page 102
15 Maple Leaf Rap (Canada) J. K. Chambers......Page 107
PART III THE MIDWEST......Page 113
16 An Introduction to Midwest English Timothy C. Frazer......Page 115
17 Straight Talking from the Heartland (Midwest) Matthew J. Gordon......Page 120
18 Words of the Windy City (Chicago,IL) Richard Cameron......Page 126
19 Different Ways of Talking in the Buckeye State (Ohio) Beverly Olson Flanigan......Page 132
20 Spirited Speech (St.Louis,MO) Thomas E. Murray......Page 138
21 Saying Ya to the Yoopers (Michigan ’s Upper Peninsula) Beth Simon......Page 144
PART IV THE WEST......Page 151
22 Getting Real in the Golden State (California) Penelope Eckert and Norma Mendoza-Denton......Page 153
23 Desert Dialect (Utah) David Bowie and Wendy Morkel......Page 158
24 Dialects in the Mist (Portland,OR) Jeff Conn......Page 163
25 Arizona ’s not so Standard English Lauren Hall-Lew......Page 170
PART V ISLANDS......Page 177
26 Topics from the Tropics (Hawai ’i) Miriam Meyerhoff......Page 179
27 Speaking Strictly Roots (West Indies) Renee Blake......Page 186
28 Gullah Gullah Islands (Sea Island,SC,GA) Tracey L. Weldon......Page 192
29 Islands of Diversity (Bahamas) Walt Wolfram, Becky Childs, Jeffrey Reaser, and Benjamin Torbert......Page 197
30 Dialects in Danger (Outer Banks,NC) Walt Wolfram......Page 203
31 Fighting the Tide (Smith Island,MD) Natalie Schilling-Estes......Page 210
32 From Cod to Cool (Newfoundland,Canada) Sandra Clarke......Page 217
33 The World ’s Loneliest Dialect (Tristan da Cunha) Daniel Schreier......Page 224
PART VI SOCIOCULTURAL DIALECTS......Page 229
34 Bridging the Great Divide (African American English) John Baugh......Page 231
35 When Linguistic Worlds Collide (African American English) Walt Wolfram and Benjamin Torbert......Page 239
36 Talkin ’ with mi Gente (Chicano English) Carmen Fought......Page 247
37 Stirring the Linguistic Gumbo (Cajun English) Megan E. Melançon......Page 252
38 From the Brickhouse to the Swamp (Lumbee Vernacular English) Walt Wolfram......Page 258
39 More than Just Yada Yada Yada (Jewish English) Cynthia Bernstein......Page 265
40 Fading Future for Ferhoodled English (Pennsylvania German) Marion Lois Huffines......Page 272
Notes on Contributors......Page 278

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