American Voices 1st Edition by W Wolfram, B Ward ISBN 978-1405121095 1405121092

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ISBN 10:   1405121092

ISBN 13: 978-1405121095

Author: W Wolfram, B Ward

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: 

1 Language Evolution or Dying Traditions? The State of American Dialects Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes

Part I The South

2 Sounds of the South Guy Bailey and Jan Tillery

3 Defining Appalachian English Kirk Hazen and Ellen Fluharty

4 If These Hills Could Talk (Smoky Mountains) Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, Bridget Anderson, and Neal Hutcheson

5 Doing the Charleston (South Carolina) Maciej Baranowski

6 The Lone Star State of Speech (Texas) Guy Bailey and Jan Tillery

7 Speaking the Big Easy (New Orleans, LA) Connie Eble

8 Sounds of Ole Man River (Memphis, TN) Valerie Fridland

Part II The North

9 Yakking with the Yankees (New England) Julie Roberts, Naomi Nagy, and Charles Boberg

10 Beantown Babble (Boston, MA) Jim Fitzpatrick

11 Mainely English Jane S. Smith

12 Steel Town Speak (Pittsburgh, PA) Barbara Johnstone and Scott Kiesling

13 New York Tawk (New York City, NY) Michael Newman

14 Expressions of Brotherly Love (Philadelphia, PA) Claudio Salvucci

15 Maple Leaf Rap (Canada) J. K. Chambers

Part III The Midwest

16 An Introduction to Midwest English Timothy C. Frazer

17 Straight Talking from the Heartland (Midwest) Matthew J. Gordon

18 Words of the Windy City (Chicago, IL) Richard Cameron

19 Different Ways of Talking in the Buckeye State (Ohio) Beverly Olson Flanigan

20 Spirited Speech (St. Louis, MO) Thomas E. Murray

21 Saying Ya to the Yoopers (Michigan’s Upper Peninsula) Beth Simon

Part IV The West

22 Getting Real in the Golden State (California) Penelope Eckert and Norma Mendoza-Denton

23 Desert Dialect (Utah) David Bowie and Wendy Morkel

24 Dialects in the Mist (Portland, OR) Jeff Conn

25 Arizona’s not so Standard English Lauren Hall-Lew

Part V Islands

26 Topics from the Tropics (Hawai’i) Miriam Meyerhoff

27 Speaking Strictly Roots (West Indies) Renee Blake

28 Gullah Gullah Islands (Sea Island, SC, GA) Tracey L.. Weldon

29 Islands of Diversity (Bahamas) Walt Wolfram, Becky Childs, Jeffrey Reaser, and Benjamin Torbert

30 Dialects in Danger (Outer Banks, NC) Walt Wolfram

31 Fighting the Tide (Smith Island, MD) Natalie Schilling-Estes

32 From Cod to Cool (Newfoundland, Canada) Sandra Clarke

33 The World’s Loneliest Dialect (Tristan da Cunha) Daniel Schreier

Part VI Sociocultural Dialects

34 Bridging the Great Divide (African American English) John Baugh

35 When Linguistic Worlds Collide (African American English)

Walt Wolfram and Benjamin Torbert

36 Talkin’ with mi Gente (Chicano English)

Carmen Fought

37 Stirring the Linguistic Gumbo (Cajun English) Megan E. Melançon

38 From the Brickhouse to the Swamp (Lumbee Vernacular English)

Walt Wolfram

39 More than Just Yada Yada Yada (Jewish English)

Cynthia Bernstein

40 Fading Future for Ferhoodled English

(Pennsylvania German)

Marion Lois Huffines

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