Language Variety in the South Revisited

Bernstein, Cynthia. (Author). Nunnally, Thomas. (Added Author). Sabino, Robin. (Added Author). Ash, Sharon. (Added Author). Bailey, Guy H. (Added Author). Bayley, Robert. (Added Author). Brewer, Jeutonne P. (Added Author). Butters, Ronald R. (Added Author). Cassidy, Frederic G. (Added Author). Ching, Marvin K. L. (Added Author). Coles, Felice Anne. (Added Author). Cooley, Marianne. (Added Author). Craig, Chris. (Added Author). Cukor-Avila, Patricia. (Added Author). Davies, Catherine Evans. (Added Author). Davis, Boyd. (Added Author). Edwards, Walter F. (Added Author). Faries, Rachel B. (Added Author). Feagin, Crawford. (Added Author). Frazer, Timothy C. (Added Author). Hall, Joan Houston. (Added Author). Hazen, Kirk. (Added Author). Johnson, Ellen. (Added Author). Johnstone, Barbara. (Added Author). Klingler, Thomas A. (Added Author). Kretzschmar, William A. (Added Author). Kung, Hsiang-te. (Added Author). Labov, William. (Added Author). Lance, Donald M. (Added Author). Maynor, Natalie. (Added Author). Metcalf, Allan. (Added Author). Mille, Katherine Wyly. (Added Author). Montgomery, Michael B. (Added Author). Mufwene, Salikoko. (Added Author). Neely, Leah. (Added Author). Picone, Michael D. (Added Author). Preston, Dennis R. (Added Author). Schilling-Estes, Natalie. (Added Author). Schneider, Edgar W. (Added Author). Smilowitz, Michael. (Added Author). Southard, Bruce. (Added Author). Taylor, William D. (Added Author). Tillery, Jan. (Added Author). Von Schneidemesser, Luanne. (Added Author). Weatherly, Joan. (Added Author). Wikle, Tom. (Added Author). Wilmeth, Thomas. (Added Author). Wolfram, Walt. (Added Author).

Summary: Top linguists from diverse fields address language varieties in the South. Language Variety in the South Revisited is a comprehensive collection of new research on southern United States English by foremost scholars of regional language variation. Like its predecessor, Language Variety in the South: Perspectives in Black and White (The University of Alabama Press, 1986), this book includes current research into African American vernacular English, but it greatly expands the scope of investigation and offers an extensive assessment of the fiel.

Record details

ISBN: 9780817386634
ISBN: 0817386637
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (656 pages)
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:january.15 Multi-User. AC-SUB 28. The South: The Touchstone / Dennis R. Preston.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Perspectives on Language Variety in the South; 1. Language Variety in the South: A Retrospective and Assessment / Michael Montgomery; 2. Southern American English: A Prospective / Guy Bailey; Part One. Language Contact with Emphasis on the African Diaspora; 3. Earlier Black English Revisited / Edgar W Schneider; 4. An Early Representation of African-American English / Marianne Cooley; 5. Challenges and Problems of Recorded Interviews / Jeutonne P. Brewer.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.