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Resource Search: History of American English
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| Author: | Ashley Williams | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Historical Linguistics
Sociolinguistics Ling & Literature |
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| Summary: |
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_navlin ks_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! |
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| LL Issue: | 21.3388 | |
| Date Posted: | 24-Aug-2010 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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