LINGUIST List 17.527
Fri Feb 17 2006
Books: Sociolinguistics, English: Murray, Simon (Eds)
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Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: Murray, Simon (Eds)
Message 1: Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: Murray, Simon (Eds)
Date: 01-Feb-2006
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: Murray, Simon (Eds)
Title: Language Variation and Change in the American Midland
Subtitle: A New Look at 'Heartland' English
Series Title: Varieties of English Around the World G36
Published: 2006
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=VEAW%20G36
Editor: Thomas E. Murray, Kansas State University
Editor: Beth Lee Simon, Indiana University
Hardback: ISBN: 9027248966 Pages: xii, 320 Price: Europe EURO 130.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027248966 Pages: xii, 320 Price: U.S. $ 156.00
Abstract:
This volume explores the linguistic complexities and critical issues of theMidland dialect area of the USA, and contains a unique data-based set ofinvestigations of the Midlands dialect. The authors demonstrate that thelarge central part of the United States known colloquially as theHeartland, geo-culturally as the Midwest, and linguistically as the Midlandis a very real dialect area, one with regional cohesiveness, socialcomplexity, and psycho-emotional impact. The individual essays problematizehistorical origins, track linguistic markers of social identity over timeand across social spaces, frame dialect issues within the linguisticmarketplace, account for extra-linguistic influences on changing patternsof linguistic behaviors, and describe maintenance strategies of non-Englishlanguages. This book is an important move forward in the understanding ofAmerican English. Sociolinguists, dialectologists, applied linguists, andall those involved in the statistical and qualitative study of languagevariation will find this volume relevant, timely, and insightful.
Table of contents
Introducing the Midland: What is it, where is it, how do we know?Beth Lee Simon ix-xii
1. What is dialect? - Revisiting the MidlandThomas E. Murray and Beth Lee Simon 1-30
The Evolving Midland
1. The North American Midland as a dialect areaSharon Ash 33-56
2. Tracking the low back merger in MissouriMatthew Gordon 57-68
3. Evidence from Ohio on the evolution of /ae/Erik R. Thomas 69-89
Defining The Midland
4. On the use of geographic names to inform regional language studiesEdward Callary 93-104
5. On the eastern edge of the Heartland: Two industrial city dialectsThomas Donahue 105-127
6. The final days of Appalachian Heritage LanguageKirk Hazen 129-150
8. It'll kill ye or cure ye, one: The history and function of alternativeone - antecedents of the MidlandMichael Montgomery 151-161
Power and Perception
7. Standardizing the HeartlandRichard W. Bailey 165-178
10. How to get to be one kind of Midwesterner: Accommodation to theNorthern Cities Chain ShiftBetsy E. Evans, Jamila Jones, Norikazu Ito and Dennis R. Preston 179-197
11. Midland(s) dialect geography: Social and demographic variablesTimothy C. Frazer 199-207
12. Drawing out the /ai/: Dialect boundaries and /ai/ variationCynthia Bernstein 209-232
Other Languages, Other Places
13. Learning Spanish in the North Georgia MountainsEllen Johnson and David Boyle 235-243
14. The Midland above the Midland: Dialect variation by region, sex, andsocial group in the linguistic atlas of the Upper MidwestMike Linn and Ronald Regal 245-262
15. Portable Community: The linguistic and psychological reality ofMidwestern Pennsylvania GermanSteven Hartman Keiser 263-274
16. The English of the Swiss Amish of Northeastern IndianaChad Thompson 275-292
References 293-311
Subject Index 313-319
Linguistic Field(s):
Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Written In: English (eng )
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