American Voices Hardcover

Walt Wolfram

American Voices is a collection of short, readable descriptions of various American dialects, written by top researchers in the field. It includes Southern English, New England speech, Chicano English, Appalachian English, Canadian English, and California English, among many others. It offers a fascinating look at the full range of American social, ethnic, and regional dialects written for the lay person.

1405121084

9781405121088

English

John Wiley And Sons Ltd

21-10-2005

288

Walt Wolfram

Ben Ward

This is a terrific book! Its geographical and sociocultural coverage is impressively broad, and its contributors include the leading experts on each variety. Authoritative content, accessible writing, jazzy titles and copious photographs combine to make this a volume that linguistic professionals, college students, and the general public will find equally inviting. John R. Rickford, Stanford University "Walt Wolfram must be a very persuasive man. He and Ben Ward have persuaded some of the world's greatest experts on North American varieties of English to appear between the same covers to create a state-of-the-art, but also extremely accessible and highly enjoyable, book on these fascinating dialects, their pasts, and their futures." Peter Trudgill, University of Fribourg