American voices; how dialects differ from coast to coast.9781405121088 American voices; how dialects differ from coast to coast. Ed. by Walt Wolfram wolfram: see tungsten. and Ben Ward. Blackwell Publishing 2006 269 pages $61.95 Hardcover PE2841 Forty-seven academics and researchers from the U.S., Canada, and Europe contribute 40 concise articles to this collection, which attempts to convert the detailed research of professional dialectologists into a more accessible form for those who are curious about language differences but lack a background in linguistics linguistics, scientific study of language, covering the structure (morphology and syntax; see grammar), sounds (phonology), and meaning (semantics), as well as the history of the relations of languages to each other and the cultural place of language in human . Following an overview of the current state of American dialects, the articles are grouped into broad-based regional sections--the South, the North, the Midwest, the West, and the Islands--and a final section on sociocultural so·ci·o·cul·tur·al adj. Of or involving both social and cultural factors. so  ci·o·cul dialects,
including African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. , Chicano, Cajun, Lumbee Vernacular ver·nac·u·lar n. 1. The standard native language of a country or locality. 2. a. The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language. See Synonyms at dialect. b. , Jewish, and Pennsylvania German Englishes. No subject index. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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