Autore	Alim H. Samy
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xviii, 205 p. ) : ill
Disciplina	306.440973
Altri autori (Persone)	SmithermanGeneva <1940->
Soggetto topico	Black English - United States Race awareness - United States African Americans - Languages English language - Social aspects - United States Language and education - United States Sociolinguistics - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-84850-3 0-19-981297-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910462822703321

Autore	Wolfram Walt <1941->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (258 p.)
Disciplina	427.97308996073 427/.973/08996073
Altri autori (Persone)	ThomasErik R
Collana	Language in society
Soggetto topico	Black English - History English language - Social aspects - United States English language - United States - History African Americans - Languages Americanisms
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-31968-6 9786611319687 0-470-69017-8 0-470-77990-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editor 's Preface; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Status of African American English; 1.2 A Unique Database; 1.3 The Hyde County Corpus; 1.4 Data Analysis; 1.5 Beyond Hyde County; 2 Issues in the Development of African American English; 2.1 Hypotheses on Earlier African American English; 2.2 Issues in Reconstructing Earlier AAVE; 2.2.1 The nature of earlier written texts; 2.2.2 Spoken language data representing earlier AAVE; 2.2.3 The sociohistorical context of earlier African Americans; 2.2.4 Variation in earlier AAVE 2.2.5 Donor source attribution2.3 African American English in the Twentieth Century; 3 Defining the Enclave Dialect Community; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Historically Isolated Speech Communities; 3.2.1 Geography; 3.2.2 Economy; 3.2.3 Historical continuity; 3.2.4 Social relations; 3.2.5 Group identity; 3.2.6 The social construction of enclave status; 3.3 Language Change in Enclave Communities; 3.4 Sociolinguistic Principles in the Con .guration of Isolated Dialects; 4 The Social History of Mainland Hyde County; 4.1 Chesapeake Bay Origins; 4.2 The Settlement of Hyde County 4.3 Hyde County from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War4.4 Reconstruction to the Great Depression; 4.5 Hyde County since 1940; 4.6 Sociohistorical Effects on Language; 5 Morphosyntactic Alignment in Hyde County English; 5.1 Issues in Attribution; 5.2 Past Tense be Regularization; 5.2.1 The historical development of leveling to weren 't; 5.2.2 Was/weren ' t leveling in Hyde County; 5.3 Copula/Auxiliary Is and Are Absence; 5.3.1 The historical development of copula absence; 5.3.2 Copula absence in Hyde County; 5.4 Third Person -s Marking 5.4.1 The historical development of verbal -s marking5.4.2 Verbal -s marking in Hyde County; 5.5.Conclusion; 6 Vocalic Alignment in Hyde County English; 6.1 An Overview of Hyde County Vowels; 6.2 The Historical Background of Hyde County Vowels; 6.3 Quantitative Analysis of Hyde County Vowels; 6.4 Conclusions; 7 Consonantal Alignment in Hyde County English; 7.1 Earlier Hyde County Consonants; 7.2 The Case of Consonant Cluster Reduction; 7.2.1 The patterning of cluster reduction; 7.2.2 Explaining consonant cluster reduction patterns in Hyde County; 7.3 The Case of Postvocalic r Vocalization 7.3.1 The patterning of postvocalic r -lessness7.3.2 Post-/d/r vocalization; 7.4 Conclusion; 8 Intonational Alignment in Hyde County English; 8.1 African American and European American Intonation; 8.2 Analytical Methods; 8.3 Results and Implications; 8.4 Conclusions; 9 The Individual and Group in Earlier African American English; 9.1 The Individual and Group in Variation Studies; 9.2 The Sample of Elderly African American Speakers; 9.3 Some Diagnostic Variables; 9.3.1 Rhoticity; 9.3.2 Syllable-coda consonant cluster reduction; 9.3.3 The vowel system; 9.3.4 Verbal -s concord 9.3.5 Copula absence
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910145740403321

Autore	Lippi-Green Rosina
Edizione	[2nd ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (375 p.)
Disciplina	306.440973
Soggetto topico	English language - Social aspects - United States English language - Political aspects - United States English language - Variation - United States Speech and social status - United States Language and culture - United States Language policy - United States Discrimination - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-136-59730-1 0-203-34880-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front Cover; English with an Accent; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: language ideology or science fiction?; 1. The linguistic facts of life; All spoken language changes; All spoken languages are equal in linguistic terms; Grammaticality does not equal communicative effectiveness; Written language and spoken language are historically, structurally, and functionally fundamentally different creatures; Variation is intrinsic to all spoken language at every level; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes Suggested further reading2. Language in motion; Changes in progress; r-less in Manhattan; The Northern Cities Chain Shift (NCCS); Lexical variation; Variation in verb morphology: strong and weak verbs; Structured variation: the hidden life of language; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 3. The myth of non-accent; You've got one too; Perspective; The Sound House; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 4. The standard language myth; Standard (American) English; Words about words; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes Suggested further reading5. Language subordination; A model of the language subordination process; Rejecting the gift: the individual's role in the communicative process; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 6. The educational system: fixing the message in stone; The setting of goals; Appropriacy arguments; The results of appropriacy argumentation; Good enough English; Teacher talk; Summary; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 7. Teaching children how to discriminate: (what we learn from the Big Bad Wolf); Storytellers, Inc. The ubiquitous mouseThe wolf's backstory; Talking the talk; Time and place; Disney feature films; Original study methodology; Getting the hang of Technicolor; Lovers and mothers; In short; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 8. The information industry; The voice of authority; Opinion, spin, propaganda; Bad is stronger than good; The 2008 presidential election; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 9. Real people with a real language: the workplace and the judicial system; The nutshell; The Civil Rights Act; The legal process Discrimination in the workplaceSelected court cases; Appendix: the U.S. civil court structure; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 10. The real trouble with Black language; Grammar: resistance is futile; Style, authenticity, and race; Defying the definition; Anglo attitudes toward AAVE; African American attitudes toward AAVE; Where we at; Discussion questions and exercises; Notes; Suggested further reading; 11. Hillbillies, hicks, and Southern belles: the language rebels; Defining the South; The Southern Trough; Sounds like home to me; The map in the mind Hostility with a smile
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457726603321

Autore	Lippi-Green, Rosina
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; New York : Routledge, 1997
Descrizione fisica	xvii, 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Soggetto topico	Lingua inglese - Stati Uniti d'America - Aspetti sociali Lingua inglese - Stati Uniti d'America - Aspetti politici Discriminazioni - Stati Uniti d'America English language - Social aspects - United States English language - Political aspects - United States English language - Variation - United States Speech and social status - United States Language and culture - United States Language policy - United States Discrimination - United States
ISBN	0415114764 (hb) 0415114772 (pbk.)
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNISALENTO-991001309449707536

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1996
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (374 p.)
Disciplina	420/.973
Altri autori (Persone)	SchneiderEdgar W <1954-> (Edgar Werner)
Collana	Varieties of English around the world. General series
Soggetto topico	English language - United States English language - Social aspects - United States English language - Variation - United States Americanisms
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-35841-7 9786613358417 90-272-7603-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	FOCUS ON THE USA; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION: RESEARCH TRENDS IN THE STUDY OF AMERICAN ENGLISH; References; PINEY WOODS SOUTHERN; References; FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH; 1. Introduction; 2. Probability mapping; 3. Lexical variation in colonial cities; 4. Conclusion; References; THE COMPARABILITY OF LINGUISTIC ATLAS RECORDS: THE CASE OF LANCS AND LAGS; 1. Introduction; 2. Method; 3. Lexical results; 4. Phonological results; 5. Conclusion; References; TERMS USED FOR CHILDREN'S GAMES: COMPARING DARE'S FINDINGS WITH USAGE OF TODAY'S YOUTH 1. Introduction 2. Methodology; 3. Findings; 4. Summary and reasons for change; THE DIALECTS OF THE MIDDLE WEST; 1. Introduction; 2. Northern, Midland, North Midland, South Midland; 3. Pronunciation: Sociolinguistic methods in a geographical context; 4. Foreign language influences; References; DIALECT CHANGE AND MAINTENANCE IN A POST-INSULAR ISLAND COMMUNITY; 1. Introduction; 2. An ethnographic perspective on dialect study; 3. The Ocracoke ""Brogue"" and other American English dialects; 4. The case of Ocracoke /ay/: Phonetic and phonological issues 5. Phonetic implausibility vs. social significance 6. Weren't regularization; 7. Applying the principle of linguistic gratuity in Ocracoke; References; A COMPARISON OF VARIATION PATTERNS OF VARIABLES AMONG SIXTH-GRADERS IN AN OHIO COMMUNITY; 1. Influences on dialectal change; 1.1. The survey; 1.2. The community; 2. Methods; 2.1. Interviewing; 2.2. Measurement of linguistic variables; 2.3. Independent variables; 2.4. Measurement of correlation; 3. Analyses of the linguistic variables; 3.1. /o/; 3.2. /æ/; 3.3. /ai/; 3.4. Upgliding in dog and similar words 3.5. The merger of pre-nasal /I/ and /ul/3.6. Mergers involving /ol/, /ull/, and /ul/; 3.7. Don't and home; 3.8. Roof; 3.9. Hostile; 3.10. Lightning bug; 3.11. Teeter-totter; 4. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Appendix; References; PERCEPTIONS WITHIN A VARIABLE PARADIGM: BLACK AND WHITE RACIAL DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION BASED ON SPEECH*; 1.Introduction; 2. Theoretical foundations; 3. Procedures; 3.1. Speech selection; 3.2. The Linguistic Sensitivity Test; 3.3. Data specification; 4. Results; 4.1. Possible interpretations; 4.2. Native evaluations and second language evaluations 4.3 Native judges ' evaluations based on social background 5. Implications for research on housing discrimination; 6. Conclusion; References; SEX-BASED DIFFERENCES IN LANGUAGE CHOICE IN AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD IN DETROIT; 1. Introduction; 2. The inner city area study; 3. Theoretical considerations; 4. The Vernacular Language Project (VLP); 5. Language and gender; 6. Language and gender in the 60+ age group; References; THE ENGLISH COMPETENCE OF CUBAN EXILES: THE CASE OF NOUN PLURALIZATION; 1. Introduction; 2. Informant selection and data gathering; 3. Data analysis 4. Results and discussion
Altri titoli varianti	Focus on the United States of America
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457862403321