Perspectives on American EnglishJoey Lee Dillard CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. |
Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
ALLEN WALKER READ British Recognition of American Speech | 15 |
HERBERT PILCH The Rise of the American English Vowel Pattern | 37 |
Alterna | 71 |
Introduction | 95 |
From Nautical Word | 131 |
JAN HAROLD BRUNVAND Sailors and Cowboys Folklore in | 147 |
TERRY G JORDAN The Origin of Mott in AngloTexan Vegeta | 163 |
Language Contact in Puerto Rico | 265 |
THOMAS F MAGNER The Melting Pot and Language Mainten | 277 |
Introduction | 289 |
ERNEST A T BARTH The Language Behavior of Negroes | 297 |
The Creole English of | 305 |
JOHN R RICKFORD AND ANGELA E RICKFORD Cuteye and Suck | 347 |
JOHN HOLM The Creole Copula that Highlighted the World | 367 |
RILEY B SMITH Interrelatedness of Certain Deviant Grammati | 393 |
DONALD HATLEY AND KATHLEEN THOMAS SEVERANCE Communi | 175 |
Introduction | 183 |
STEPHEN GRAHAM The American Language | 191 |
LILIAN MERMIN FEINSILVER The Yiddish is Showing | 205 |
IAN F HANCOCK The Ethnolectal English of American Gypsies | 257 |
DOUGLAS LEECHMAN AND ROBERT A HALL JR American Indian | 417 |
RICHARD R DAY AND CHARLENE SATO Categories of Transforma | 433 |
ALBERT DRESSLER Chinese Telegrams | 447 |
References to Introductions | 461 |
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