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