Heartland English: Variation and Transition in the American Midwest

✍ Scribed by Timothy C. Frazer (Editor)

• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Series: Centennial Series of the American Dialect Society
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A Publication in the Centennial Series of the American Dialect Society in celebration of the beginning of its second century of research into language variation in America.             “Heartland” English is the first book-length scholarly treatment of English spoken in the Midwest, or the northern interior of the continental United States. Frazer and his contributors focus on the myth of a uniform, “Midwestern” variety of American English. They show the complex region in which forces-old and new- have led to variety in the spoken language. Contributors include: Craig M. Carver, Thomas Donahue, Rachel Faries, Ticmothy Frazer, Timothy Habick, Robin Herndobler, Donald Lance, Donald Larmouth, Michael Miller, Thomas Murray, Denis Preston, Marjorie Remsing, Timothy Riney, Andre Sledd, Bruce Southard, and Erick Thomas. 

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 3
ISBN......Page 4
Dedication......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 7
PREFACE......Page 9
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 11
1 Problems in Midwest English: Introduction and Overview......Page 12
I POWER & PERCEPTION......Page 32
2 Two Heartland Perceptions of Language Variety......Page 34
3 On Inland Northern and the Factors for Dialect Spread and Shift......Page 60
4 The Language of Yankee Cultural Imperialism: Pioneer Ideology and "General American"......Page 70
5 Black English and Standard English in Chicago......Page 78
6 Linguistic Controversies, VBE Structures, and Midwest Attitudes......Page 92
II URBAN STUDIES & MICROANALYSES......Page 106
7 Farmer City, Illinois: Sound Systems Shifting South......Page 108
8 The Language of St. Louis, Missouri: Dialect Mixture in the Urban Midwest......Page 136
9 Sound Change and Gender in a Working-Class Community......Page 148
10 Yankee Words in Chicago Black Speech......Page 169
III GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES......Page 183
11 Positive anymore in the Midwest......Page 185
12 Some Dialect Features in the Speech of Missouri Germans......Page 199
13 Regional Speech Variation in Wisconsin......Page 211
14 ''Kentuck" English in Wisconsin's Cutover Region......Page 227
15 Elements of Midwestern Speech in Oklahoma......Page 241
16 Regional Variation in Missouri......Page 257
17 The Use of all the + Comparative Structure......Page 269
NOTES......Page 279
REFERENCES......Page 297
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS......Page 315
INDEX......Page 319