Title: American Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to CoastEditor(s): Walt Wolfram and Ben Ward
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2005
Pages: 283
Size: 7.23 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English
Have you ever wanted to yak with the Yankees? Speak the Big Easy? Travel with American Voices across the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean to experience both familiar and little-known dialects that are thriving despite our mass-communication culture. [+/-]
Edited by acclaimed linguist Walt Wolfram and Ben Ward, consultant editor of Language Magazine, this collection gives readers a new understanding of language diversity through an engaging look at regional, ethnic, and socio-cultural dialects such as African American, Chicano, Cajun, and Jewish English.
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
About the author
Walt Wolfram is William C. Friday Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University.
Ben Ward is Consultant Editor of Language Magazine, the Journal of Communication and Education.
Reviews
"This is a terrific book! Its geographical and sociocultural coverage is impressively broad, and its contributors include the leading experts on each variety. Authoritative content, accessible writing, jazzy titles and copious photographs combine to make this a volume that linguistic professionals, college students, and the general public will find equally inviting." -John R. Rickford, Stanford University
"Walt Wolfram must be a very persuasive man. He and Ben Ward have persuaded some of the world’s greatest experts on North American varieties of English to appear between the same covers to create a state-of-the-art, but also extremely accessible and highly enjoyable, book on these fascinating dialects, their pasts, and their futures." -Peter Trudgill, University of Fribourg
Edited by acclaimed linguist Walt Wolfram and Ben Ward, consultant editor of Language Magazine, this collection gives readers a new understanding of language diversity through an engaging look at regional, ethnic, and socio-cultural dialects such as African American, Chicano, Cajun, and Jewish English.
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
About the author
Walt Wolfram is William C. Friday Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University.
Ben Ward is Consultant Editor of Language Magazine, the Journal of Communication and Education.
Reviews
"This is a terrific book! Its geographical and sociocultural coverage is impressively broad, and its contributors include the leading experts on each variety. Authoritative content, accessible writing, jazzy titles and copious photographs combine to make this a volume that linguistic professionals, college students, and the general public will find equally inviting." -John R. Rickford, Stanford University
"Walt Wolfram must be a very persuasive man. He and Ben Ward have persuaded some of the world’s greatest experts on North American varieties of English to appear between the same covers to create a state-of-the-art, but also extremely accessible and highly enjoyable, book on these fascinating dialects, their pasts, and their futures." -Peter Trudgill, University of Fribourg
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