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How to speak Midwestern / / Edward McClelland ; book design by Meredith Pangrace ; cover by David Wilson
| How to speak Midwestern / / Edward McClelland ; book design by Meredith Pangrace ; cover by David Wilson |
| Autore | McClelland Ted |
| Edizione | [First edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cleveland, Ohio : , : Belt Publishing, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (90 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 427.977 |
| Soggetto topico |
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 |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-9977742-9-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Inland North -- Midland -- North Central -- Glossaries. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154598403321 |
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| Cleveland, Ohio : , : Belt Publishing, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Language variation and change in the American midland [[electronic resource] ] : a new look at "heartland" English
| Language variation and change in the American midland [[electronic resource] ] : a new look at "heartland" English |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : John Benjamins, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 319 p. : ill.) |
| Disciplina | 427/.977 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MurrayThomas E <1956-> (Thomas Edward)
SimonBeth Lee |
| Collana | Varieties of English around the world. General series |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Variation - Middle West
English language - Dialects - Middle West English language - Middle West |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-15584-9
9786612155840 90-272-9354-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449927903321 |
| Amsterdam, : John Benjamins, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Language variation and change in the American midland [[electronic resource] ] : a new look at "heartland" English
| Language variation and change in the American midland [[electronic resource] ] : a new look at "heartland" English |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, : John Benjamins, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 319 p. : ill.) |
| Disciplina | 427/.977 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MurrayThomas E <1956-> (Thomas Edward)
SimonBeth Lee |
| Collana | Varieties of English around the world. General series |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Variation - Middle West
English language - Dialects - Middle West English language - Middle West |
| ISBN |
1-282-15584-9
9786612155840 90-272-9354-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783423503321 |
| Amsterdam, : John Benjamins, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Language variation and change in the American midland : a new look at "heartland" English / / edited by Thomas E. Murray, Beth Lee Simon
| Language variation and change in the American midland : a new look at "heartland" English / / edited by Thomas E. Murray, Beth Lee Simon |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 319 p. : ill.) |
| Disciplina | 427/.977 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MurrayThomas E <1956-> (Thomas Edward)
SimonBeth Lee |
| Collana | Varieties of English around the world. General series |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Variation - Middle West
English language - Dialects - Middle West English language - Middle West |
| ISBN |
1-282-15584-9
9786612155840 90-272-9354-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Language Variation and Change in the American Midland -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Introducing the Midland -- The Midland: What is it? -- The Midland: Where is it? -- The Midland: How do we know? -- Notes -- What is dialect? -- Introduction -- Background of the Midland controversy -- Defining the Midland -- Midland grammar -- Conclusions -- Notes -- I. The Evolving Midland -- The North American Midland as a dialect area -- Introduction -- Dialect regions of the United States -- Settlement -- Methods and results -- Conclusion -- Tracking the low back merger in Missouri -- Introduction -- The low back merger in American English -- Methods -- Results and discussion -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Appendix -- Excerpts from the Written Questionnaire -- Evidence from Ohio on the evolution of /æ/ -- /æ/ and the Midwest -- /æ/ and social history -- Methods of acoustic analysis -- /æ/ patterns across Ohio -- Implications for the history of /æ/ -- Conclusions -- Notes -- II. Defining the Midland -- On the use of geographic names to inform regional language studies -- Note -- On the eastern edge of the Heartland -- Introduction -- Scholarly accounts -- Popular accounts from the Web -- Discussion -- Why an industrial city dialect forms: Conflict theory explanations -- Why an industrial city dialect forms: Dialectology and sociology of language explanations -- Where are the dialects going? Youngstown shifts -- Other evidence -- The current Pittsburgh dialect -- Broader significance of this study -- Dialects reflect, and are formed within, a cultural division of labor -- Note -- Appendix -- The final days of Appalachian Heritage Language* -- Introduction -- Qualitative analysis -- Subject-verb concord -- Demonstrative and pleonastic pronouns -- Quantitative analysis: Monophthongization of /aj/ -- Conclusion.
Notes -- It'll kill ye or cure ye, one -- History -- Elicitations -- Four hypotheses -- Discussion and conclusion -- Notes -- III. Power and Perception -- Standardizing the Heartland -- Notes -- How to get to be one kind of Midwesterner -- Notes -- Midland(s) dialect geography -- Note -- Drawing out the /ai/ -- Introduction -- Dialect areas and variants of /ai/: Hans Kurath and Raven McDavid -- Distribution of monophthongal /ai/: William Labov et al. -- /ai/ in Illinois: Timothy Frazer -- Vowel plots: Erik Thomas -- LAGS: Regional and social variation -- Attitude study: Alabama and Texas sorority project -- Conclusion: Sociolinguistic and regional boundaries of /ai/ -- Notes -- IV. Other Languages, Other Places -- Learning Spanish in the North Georgia Mountains -- The Midland above the Midland -- Introduction -- Model selection for individual items -- Lexical forms -- Phonological forms -- Grammatical forms -- Correspondence Analysis -- Conclusions -- Portable community -- Strawberry runners, portable community, and linguistic homogeneity -- Regional variation in the Deitsch of Southeastern Pennsylvania -- The spread of Deitsch across the Midwest -- The notion and practice of portable community -- Evidence for linguistic homogeneity of Midwestern Deitsch -- The psychological reality of Midwestern Deitsch -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The English of the Swiss Amish of Northeastern Indiana -- The speech community -- The Swiss Amish use of English -- Contexts for the use of English -- Results of English use survey -- Possible explanations for the shift to English -- Interference and borrowing from English to German -- Amish and non-Amish varieties of English -- Amish intercommunity variation -- Amish to non-Amish variation -- Impressionistic observations -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index -- The series Varieties of English Around the World. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812588803321 |
| Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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