Language in the USA
Subtitle: Themes for the Twenty-first Century
Contributors: Edward Finegan (Editor); John R. Rickford (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 2, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780521771757
Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology; Sociolinguistics; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; USA; United States; Alphabet; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Languages
First sentence: "O my America, my new found land" wrote John Donne in the 1590s in a sensuous comparison of his mistress's nakedness with the "late discoveries" made on the far western shore of the Atlantic.