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- Author: Jim Everhart
- Publisher:
- ISBN:
- Category : American wit and humor
- Languages : en
- Pages :
The English Language
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- Author: David Crystal
- Publisher: Penguin UK
- ISBN: 0141929308
- Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
- Languages : en
- Pages : 314
This is the definitive survey of the English language - in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and finally he gives a brief history of English. The book has been fully revised and there is a fascinating new chapter on 'The effect of technology' on the English language. 'Illuminating guided tour of our common treasure by one of its most lucid and sensible professionals' The Times 'A splendid blend of erudition and entertainment' THES
Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English
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- Author: James B. McMillan
- Publisher: University Alabama Press
- ISBN: 0817359362
- Category : Reference
- Languages : en
- Pages : 463
A collection of the total range of scholarly and popular writing on English as spoken from Maryland to Texas and from Kentucky to Florida The only book-length bibliography on the speech of the American South, this volume focuses on the pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, naming practices, word play, and other aspects of language that have interested researchers and writers for two centuries. Compiled here are the works of linguists, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and educators, as well as popular commentators. With over 3,800 entries, this invaluable resource is a testament to the significance of Southern speech, long recognized as a distinguishing feature of the South, and the abiding interest of Southerners in their speech as a mark of their identity. The entries encompass Southern dialects in all their distinctive varieties—from Appalachian to African American, and sea islander to urbanite.
Lexikon Der Sprachwissenschaft
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- Author: Hadumod Bussmann
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- ISBN: 0415022258
- Category : Foreign Language Study
- Languages : en
- Pages : 1336
In over 2,500 entries, this Dictionary provides an exhaustive survey of the key terminology and languages of more than thirty sub-disciplines of linguistics.
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
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- Author: David Crystal
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN: 1108423590
- Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
- Languages : en
- Pages : 583
Now in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, structure and worldwide use of English. Fully updated and expanded, with a fresh redesigned layout, and over sixty audio resources to bring language extracts to life, it covers all aspects of the English language including the history of English, with new pages on Shakespeare's vocabulary and pronunciation, updated statistics on global English use that now cover all countries and the future of English in a post-Brexit Europe, regional and social variations, with fresh insights into the growing cultural identities of 'new Englishes', English in everyday use with new sections on gender identities, forensic studies, and 'big data' in corpus linguistics, and digital developments, including the emergence of new online varieties in social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. Packed with brand new colour illustrations, photographs, maps, tables and graphs, this new edition is an essential tool for a new generation of twenty-first-century English language enthusiasts.
Methods in Dialectology
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- Author: Alan R. Thomas
- Publisher: Multilingual Matters
- ISBN: 9781853590221
- Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
- Languages : en
- Pages : 718
This book reflects the current concerns of dialectologists, as they exploit methodological tools in the twin contexts of insights which derive from sociology via sociolinguistics, and their awareness of the interplay between synchronic variation and linguistic change.
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Language Play
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- Author: David Crystal
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- ISBN: 9780226122052
- Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
- Languages : en
- Pages : 270
In this exhilarating and often hilarious book, David Crystal examines why we devote so much time and energy to language games, how professionals make a career of them, and how young children instinctively take to them. Crystal makes a simple argument-that since playing with language is so natural, a natural way to learn language is to play with it-while he discusses puns, crosswords, lipograms, comic alphabets, rhymes, funny voices taken from dialect and popular culture, limericks, anagrams, scat singing, and much more.
Sounds Appealing
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- Author: David Crystal
- Publisher: Profile Books
- ISBN: 1782832343
- Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
- Languages : en
- Pages : 203
It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ... There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation in the English language, and Britain's most distinguished linguistic expert, David Crystal, is here to set the record straight. Sounds Appealing tells us exactly why, and how, we pronounce words as we do. Pronunciation is integral to communication, and is tailored to meet the demands of the two main forces behind language: intelligibility and identity. Equipping his readers with knowledge of phonetics, linguistics and physiology - with examples ranging from Eliza Doolittle to Winston Churchill - David Crystal explores the origins of regional accents, how they are influenced by class and education, and how their peculiarities have changed over time.
