Dictionary of American Regional English

Dictionary of American Regional English

Author: Frederic G. Cassidy

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780674205116

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A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities. Online index is at http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/18.


Dictionary of American Regional English: P-Sk

Dictionary of American Regional English: P-Sk

Author: Frederic G. Cassidy

Publisher: Belknap Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 1048

ISBN-13:

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A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities. Online index is at http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/18.


Dictionary of American Regional English: Introduction and A-C

Dictionary of American Regional English: Introduction and A-C

Author: Frederic G. Cassidy

Publisher: Belknap Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 1074

ISBN-13:

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This series capture the language spoken on America's main streets and country roads, words and phrases passed along within homes and communities, from east to west, north to south, childhood to old age. Built upon an unprecedented survey of spoken English across America and bolstered by extensive historical research, this series preserves the language with all its idioms and peculiarities.


Dictionary of American Regional English: D-H

Dictionary of American Regional English: D-H

Author: Frederic G. Cassidy

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 1196

ISBN-13:

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A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities. Online index is at http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/18.


American English

American English

Author: Walt Wolfram

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-10-19

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1118391438

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The new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field of American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences. Now accompanied by a companion website with an extensive array of sound files, video clips, and other online materials to enhance and illustrate discussions in the text Features brand new chapters that cover the very latest topics, such as Levels of Dialect, Regional Varieties of English, Gender and Language Variation, The Application of Dialect Study, and Dialect Awareness: Extending Application, as well as new exercises with online answers Updated to contain dialect samples from a wider array of US regions Written for students taking courses in dialect studies, variationist sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, and requires no pre-knowledge of linguistics Includes a glossary and extensive appendix of the pronunciation, grammatical, and lexical features of American English dialects


Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE).

Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE).

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Presents information on the "Dictionary of American Regional English," (DARE) provided by Luanne von Schneidemesser. The dictionary documents the varieties of English that are found everywhere in the United States, including words, pronunciations, and phrases that vary from one region to another. Notes that the book is published by Harvard University Press. Includes quizzes to match up regional phrases with definitions.