LINGUIST List 21.3388 Tue Aug 24 2010 Sum: Resource Search: History of American English Editor for this issue: Danielle St. Jean <daniellelinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    Ashley Williams, Resource Search: History of American English Message 1: Resource Search: History of American English Date: 23-Aug-2010 From: Ashley Williams <amw9zvirginia.edu> Subject: Resource Search: History of American English E-mail this message to a friend Query for this summary posted in LINGUIST Issue: 21.3329 Thank you to the following people who responded to my query on resources on the history of American English (beyond Bailey & Finegan's chapters in Language in the USA & beyond Bill Bryson's popular works): JL Campbell Kat Dziwirek Lisa Galvin Peter Grund Joachim Grzega Lauren Hall-Lew Alice Horning Stephen Lucek Wayne O'Neill Joshua Raclaw Edgar Schneider Here is their list of suggestions: Films: - The Adventure of English (& companion book) - Do You Speak American? (& companion book) - American Tongues Texts: - Wolfram & Schilling Estes, American English (esp. chs. 2 & 4) - Fennell, A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach (esp. ch. 7) - Tottie, An Introduction to American English (for comparisons of American English with British English) - Dicker, Languages in America - Abley, The Prodigal Tongue (on Englishes in the world) - Mufwene & Baugh on history of AAVE, Ebonics - Schneider, Postcolonial English (esp. ch. 6) - Kovecses, American English: An Introduction - Svartvik & Leech, English: One Tongue, Many Voices (esp. chs. 5 & 8, connect American English & British English & trace the history) - Writings by HL Mencken, William Safire, Geoff Nunberg (esp. Going Nucular) HL Mencken's The American Language, is available online at: http://www.bartleby.com/185/ or http://books.google.com/books?id=XbZIAAAAMAAJ&dq=The+American+Language&source=gbs_navlinks_s There is also an abridged version of Mencken by Raven I. McDavid. Thanks again to all who responded. I look forward to tackling this list! Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Ling & Literature                             Sociolinguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 24-Aug-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.