Perspectives on American English

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 1980

Perspectives on American English

Edited by: Joey L. Dillard

Volume 29 in the series Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110813340

Contents

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
General Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE. Native English-Speaking Immigrants
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
British Recognition of American Speech in the Eighteenth Century Allen Walker Read Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
The Rise of the American English Vowel Pattern Herbert Pilch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
American English Dialectology: Alternatives for the Southwest Gary Ν. Underwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
PART TWO. The Sea and the American Frontier
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Sea Terms Come Ashore George Davis Chase Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Larrupin': From Nautical Word to Multiregionalism Margie Ivey-Dillard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
New York City and the Antebellum South: The Maritime Connection Marshall D. Berger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Slang and Words with their Origin on the River Wpa Writers’ Project Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Sailors' and Cowboys' Folklore in Two Popular Classics Jan Harold Brunvand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
The Origin of Mott in Anglo-Texan Vegetational Terminology Terry G. Jordan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Communication in a Frontier Society Donald Hatley and Kathleen Thomas Severance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
PART THREE. Immigration and Migration
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
The American Language Stephen Graham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
The Study of the English of the Pennsylvania Germans Otto Springer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
The Yiddish is Showing Lilian Mermin Feinsilver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
The Ethnolectal English of American Gypsies Ian F. Hancock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Spanglish: Language Contact in Puerto Rico Rose Nash Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
The Melting Pot and Language Maintenance in South Slavic Immigrant Groups Thomas F. Magner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
PART FOUR. Black English
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
The Language Behavior of Negroes and Whites Ernest A. T. Barth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Texan Gullah: The Creole English of the Brackettville Afro-Seminoles Ian F. Hancock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Black English near its Roots: The Transplanted West African Creoles John C. Birmingham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Cut-Eye and Suck-Teeth: African Words and Gestures in New World Guise John R. Rickford and Angela E. Rickford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
The Creole 'Copula' that Highlighted the World John Holm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
Have/Got in the Speech of Anglo and Black Children Robert Berdan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
Interrelatedness of Certain Deviant Grammatical Structures in Negro Nonstandard Dialects Riley Β. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
PART FIVE. Pidgin English
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
American Indian Pidgin English: Attestations and Grammatical Peculiarities Douglas Leechman and Robert A. Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
Attestations of American Indian Pidgin English in Fiction and Nonfiction Mary Rita Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
Categories of Transformations in Second Language Acquisition Richard R. Day and Charlene Sato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
Chinese Telegrams Albert Dressler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
References to Introductions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Edition: Reprint 2015
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 467
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 6
- Tables: 16
- Other: 4 Kte.
Keywords: Amerikanisches Englisch; Dialektologie; Soziolinguistik

eBook

Published: November 13, 2015
ISBN: 9783110813340

Hardcover

Published: August 1, 1980
ISBN: 9789027933676