American voices
Subtitle: how dialects differ from coast to coast
By: edited by Walt Wolfram and Ben Ward.
Contributors: Wolfram, Walt, 1941-; Ward, Ben, 1962-
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781405121088; 9781405121095
Subjects: English language -- Dialects -- United States.; English language -- Variation -- United States.; English language -- Dialects -- Canada.; English language -- Dialects -- Caribbean Area.
Description: "This collection gives readers a new understanding of language diversity through an engaging look at regional, ethnic, and sociocultural dialects such as African America, Chicano, Cajun, and Jewish English."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Language evolution or dying traditions? : the state of American dialects / Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes; title: Sounds of the South / Guy Bailey and Jan Tillery; title: Defining Appalachian English / Kirk Hazen and Ellen Fluharty; title: If these hills could talk (Smoky Mountains) / Christine Mallinson ... [et al.]; title: Doing the Charleston (South Carolina) / Maciej Baranowski; title: The Lone Star State of speech (Texas) / Guy Bailey and Jan Tillery; title: Speaking the Big Easy (New Orleans, LA) / Connie Eble; title: Sounds of Ole Man River (Memphis, TN) / Valerie Fridland; title: Yakking with the Yankees (New England) / Julie Roberts, Naomi Nagy, and Charles Boberg; title: Beantown babble (Boston, MA) / Jim Fitzpatrick; title: Mainely English / Jane Smith; title: Steel Town speak (Pittsburgh, PA) / Barbara Johnstone and Scott Kiesling; title: New Yawk tawk (New York City, NY) / Michael Newman; title: Expressions of brotherly love (Philadelphia, PA) / Claudio Salvucci; title: Maple leaf rap (Canada) / J.K. Chambers; title: An introduction to Midwest English / Timothy C. Frazer; title: Straight talking from the heartland (Midwest) / Matthew Gordon; title: Words of the Windy City (Chicago, IL) / Richard Cameron; title: Different ways of talking in the Buckeye State (Ohio) / Beverly Olson Flanigan; title: Spirited speech (St. Louis, MO) / Tom Murray; title: Saying ya to the yoopers (Michigan's Upper Peninsula) / Beth Simon; title: Getting real in the Golden State (California) / Penelope Eckert and Norma Mendoza-Denton; title: Desert dialect (Utah) / David Bowie and Wendy Morkel; title: Dialects in the mist (Portland, OR) / Jeff Conn; title: Arizona's not so standard / Lauren Lew-Hall; title: Topics from the tropics (Hawai'i) / Miriam Meyerhoff; title: Speaking strictly roots (West Indies) / Renee Blake; title: Gullah Gullah islands (Sea Island, SC, GA) / Tracey Weldon; title: Islands of diversity (Bahamas) / Walt Wolfram ... [et al.]; title: Dialect in danger (Outer Banks, NC) / Walt Wolfram; title: Fighting the tide (Smith Island, MD) / Natalie Schilling-Estes; title: From cod to cool (Newfoundland, Canada) / Sandra Clark; title: The world's loneliest island (Tristan da Cunha) / Daniel Schreier; title: Bridging the great divide (African American English) / John Baugh; title: When languages collide (African American English) / Walt Wolfram and Ben Torbert; title: Talking with mi gente (Chicano English) / Carmen Fought; title: Stirring the linguistic gumbo (Cajun English) / Megan Melançon; title: From the brickhouse to the swamp (Lumbee vernacular English) / Walt Wolfram; title: More than just yada, yada, yada (Jewish English) / Cynthia Bernstein; title: Fading future for ferhoodled English (Pennsylvania German) / Marion Lois Huffines.