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.
• Other title: 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 --; 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 --; 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 --; 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 --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110813340; 9783110636772
• ISSN: 1861-0676
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110813340
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Joey L. Dillard.