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ISBN 10: 1405121084 

ISBN 13: 9781405121088

Author: Walt Wolfram, Ben Ward

American Voices is a collection of short, readable descriptions of various American dialects, written by top researchers in the field.

• written by top researchers in the field and includes Southern English, New England speech, Chicano English, Appalachian English, Canadian English, and California English, among many others
  
• fascinating look at the full range of American social, ethnic, and regional dialects written for the lay person

Table of contents:

1. List of Illustrations
2. Preface
3. Language Evolution or Dying Traditions. The State of American Dialects

Part I: The South
4. Sounds of the South
5. Defining Appalachian English
6. If These Hills Could Talk (Smoky Mountains)
7. Doing the Charleston (South Carolina)
8. The Lone Star State of Speech (Texas)
9. Speaking the Big Easy (New Orleans, LA)
10. Sounds of Ole Man River (Memphis, TN)

Part II: The North
11. Yakking with the Yankees (New England)
12. Beantown Babble (Boston, MA)
13. Mainely English
14. Steel Town Speak (Pittsburgh, PA)
15. New Yawk Tawk (New York City, NY)
16. Expressions of Brotherly Love (Philadelphia, PA)
17. Maple Leaf Rap (Canada)

Part III: The Midwest
18. An Introduction to Midwest English
19. Straight Talking from the Heartland (Midwest)
20. Words of the Windy City (Chicago, IL)
21. Different Ways of Talking in the Buckeye State (Ohio)
22. Spirited Speech (St. Louis, MO)
23. Saying Ya to the Yoopers (Michigan’s Upper Peninsula)

Part IV: The West
24. Getting Real in the Golden State (California)
25. Desert Dialect (Utah)
26. Dialects in the Mist (Portland, OR)
27. Arizona’s Not So Standard English

Part V: Islands
28. Topics from the Tropics (Hawai’i)
29. Speaking Strictly Roots (West Indies)
30. Gullah Gullah Islands (Sea Island, SC, GA)
31. Islands of Diversity (Bahamas)
32. Dialect in Danger (Outer Banks, NC)
33. Fighting the Tide (Smith Island, MD)
34. From Cod to Cool (Newfoundland, Canada)
35. The World’s Loneliest Island (Tristan de Cunha)

Sociocultural Dialects
36. Bridging the Great Divide (African American English)
37. When Languages Collide (African American English)
38. Talking with mi Gente (Chicano English)
39. Stirring the Linguistic Gumbo (Cajun English)
40. From the Brickhouse to the Swamp (Lumbee Vernacular English)
41. More than Just Yada, Yada, Yada (Jewish English)
42. Fading Future for Ferhoodled English (Pennsylvania German)

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