1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009796080403321

Autore

Cannelli, Riccardo <1960 >

Titolo

Nazione cattolica e Stato laico : il conflitto politico-religioso in Messico dall'indipendenza alla rivoluzione, 1821-1914 / Riccardo Cannelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Guerini e Associati, 2002

ISBN

88-8335-276-9

Descrizione fisica

267 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Contemporanea , Civiltà e transizioni ; 1

Disciplina

322.10972

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

Collez. 2101 (1)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154598403321

Autore

McClelland Ted

Titolo

How to speak Midwestern / / Edward McClelland ; book design by Meredith Pangrace ; cover by David Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cleveland, Ohio : , : Belt Publishing, , 2016

ISBN

0-9977742-9-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (90 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

427.977

Soggetti

English language - Variation - Middle West

English language - Dialects - Middle West

Americanisms - Middle West

HISTORY - United States - State & Local - Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES - Linguistics

SOCIAL SCIENCE - Anthropology - Cultural & Social

English language - Variation

English language - Dialects

Americanisms

Electronic books.

Middle West

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Inland North -- Midland -- North Central -- Glossaries.

Sommario/riassunto

Pittsburgh toilet, squeaky cheese, city chicken, shampoo banana, and Chevy in the Hole are all phrases that are familiar to Midwesterners but sound foreign to anyone living outside the region. This book explains not only what Midwesterners say but also how and why they say it and covers such topics as: the causes of the Northern cities vowel shift, why the accents in 'Fargo' miss the nasality that's a hallmark of Minnesota speech, and why Chicagoans talk more like people from Buffalo than their next-door neighbors in Wisconsin. Readers from the Midwest will have a better understanding of why they talk the way they do, and readers who are not from the Midwest will know exactly what to say the



next time someone ends a sentence with "eh?"