Perspectives on American English / / ed. by Joey L. Dillard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics - <1990
• MitwirkendeR: Barth, Ernest A. T.,; Berdan, Robert,; Berger, Marshall D.,; Birmingham, John C.,; Brunvand, Jan Harold,; Chase, George Davis,; Day, Richard R.,; Dressler, Albert,; Feinsilver, Lilian Mermin,; Graham, Stephen,; Hall, Robert A.,; Hancock, Ian F.,; Hatley, Donald,; Holm, John,; Ivey-Dillard, Margie,; Jordan, Terry G.,; Leechman, Douglas,; Magner, Thomas F.,; Miller, Mary Rita,; Nash, Rose,; Pilch, Herbert,; Read, Allen Walker,; Rickford, Angela E.,; Rickford, John R.,; Sato, Charlene,; Severance, Kathleen Thomas,; Smith, Riley Β.,; Springer, Otto,; Underwood, Gary Ν.,; Wpa Writers’ Project,,
• HerausgeberIn: Dillard, Joey L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Reprint 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 29
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (467 p.) :; 4 Kte.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- General Introduction -- PART ONE. Native English-Speaking Immigrants -- Introduction -- British Recognition of American Speech in the Eighteenth Century -- The Rise of the American English Vowel Pattern -- American English Dialectology: Alternatives for the Southwest -- PART TWO. The Sea and the American Frontier -- Introduction -- Sea Terms Come Ashore -- Larrupin': From Nautical Word to Multiregionalism -- New York City and the Antebellum South: The Maritime Connection -- Slang and Words with their Origin on the River -- Sailors' and Cowboys' Folklore in Two Popular Classics -- The Origin of Mott in Anglo-Texan Vegetational Terminology -- Communication in a Frontier Society -- PART THREE. Immigration and Migration -- Introduction -- The American Language -- The Study of the English of the Pennsylvania Germans -- The Yiddish is Showing -- The Ethnolectal English of American Gypsies -- Spanglish: Language Contact in Puerto Rico -- The Melting Pot and Language Maintenance in South Slavic Immigrant Groups -- PART FOUR. Black English -- Introduction -- The Language Behavior of Negroes and Whites -- Texan Gullah: The Creole English of the Brackettville Afro-Seminoles -- Black English near its Roots: The Transplanted West African Creoles -- Cut-Eye and Suck-Teeth: African Words and Gestures in New World Guise -- The Creole 'Copula' that Highlighted the World -- Have/Got in the Speech of Anglo and Black Children -- Interrelatedness of Certain Deviant Grammatical Structures in Negro Nonstandard Dialects -- PART FIVE. Pidgin English -- Introduction -- American Indian Pidgin English: Attestations and Grammatical Peculiarities -- Attestations of American Indian Pidgin English in Fiction and Nonfiction -- Categories of Transformations in Second Language Acquisition -- Chinese Telegrams -- References to Introductions