{"product_id":"american-english-9781118390221","title":"American English","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field of American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eNow 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUpdated to contain dialect samples from a wider array of US regions\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten for students taking courses in dialect studies, variationist sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, and requires no pre-knowledge of linguistics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a glossary and extensive appendix of the pronunciation, grammatical, and lexical features of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This edition is more than just a latest edition of the two earlier ones, as it is an improved and, in the authors words, a thoroughly revised and updated version (p. xiii) made more comprehensive by featuring new, separate sections on Jewish English and Asian American English, as well as a whole separate chapter on language and ethnicity.\" - Polycarp Naanma Dajang - The Linguist \"The book s rather simple language and style of presentation means it is an invaluable text for readers from a wide range of backgrounds.\" - Polycarp Naanma Dajang- The Linguist \"The interactive features (websites with text, audio files and video vignettes which can be accessed by anyone with a smartphone by the Quick Response (QR) code facility) especially make the book a reader-friendly resource for anyone interested in learning about variation studies, dialects and dialect issues, especially of dialects in the United States.\" - Polycarp Naanma Dajang- The Linguist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompanion Website x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhonetic Symbols xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Dialects, Standards, and Vernaculars 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Defining Dialect 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Dialect: The Popular Viewpoint 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 Dialect Myths and Linguistic Reality 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 Standards and Vernaculars 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 Language Descriptivism and Prescriptivism 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6 Vernacular Dialects 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.7 Labeling Vernacular Dialects 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.8 Why Study Dialects? 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.9 A Tradition of Study 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.10 Further Reading 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Why Dialects? 27\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Sociohistorical Explanation 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1.1 Settlement 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1.2 Migration 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1.3 Geographical factors 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1.4 Language contact 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1.5 Economic ecology 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1.6 Social stratification 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1.7 Social interaction, social practices, and speech communities 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1.8 Group and individual identity 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 Linguistic Explanation 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2.1 Rule extension 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2.2 Analogy 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2.3 Transparency and grammaticalization 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2.4 Pronunciation principles 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2.5 Words and word meanings 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 The Final Product 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Further Reading 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Levels of Dialect 59\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Lexical Differences 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Slang 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Phonological Differences 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Grammatical Differences 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Language Use and Pragmatics 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6 Further Reading 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Dialects in the United States: Past, Present, and Future 97\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 The First English(es) in America 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1.1 Jamestown 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1.2 Boston 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1.3 Philadelphia 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1.4 Charleston 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1.5 New Orleans 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Earlier American English: The Colonial Period 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 American English Extended 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 The Westward Expansion of English 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 The Present and Future State of American English 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.6 Further Reading 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Regional Varieties of English 125\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Eliciting Regional Dialect Forms 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Mapping Regional Variants 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 The Distribution of Dialect Forms 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Dialect Diffusion 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 Perceptual Dialectology 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6 Region and Place 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.7 Further Reading 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWebsites 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Social Varieties of American English 159\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Social Status and Class 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Beyond Social Class 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Indexing Social Meanings through Language Variation 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 The Patterning of Social Differences in Language 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 Linguistic Constraints on Variability 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.6 The Social Evaluation of Linguistic Features 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.7 Social Class and Language Change 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8 Further Reading 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Ethnicity and American English 183\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Ethnic Varieties and Ethnolinguistic Repertoire 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Patterns of Ethnolinguistic Variation 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Latino English 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 Cajun English 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5 Lumbee English 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6 Jewish American English 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.7 Asian American English 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.8 Further Reading 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 African American English 217\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Defining the English of African Americans 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 The Relationship between European American and African American English 220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 The Origin and Early Development of African American English 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.1 The Anglicist Hypothesis 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.2 The Creolist Hypothesis 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.3 A Note on Creole Exceptionalism 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.4 The Neo‐Anglicist Hypothesis 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3.5 The Substrate Hypothesis 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 The Contemporary Development of African American Speech 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5 Conclusion 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6 Further Reading 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Gender and Language Variation 245\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 Gender‐based Patterns of Variation 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 Explaining General Patterns 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 Localized Expressions of Gender Relations 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 Communities of Practice: Linking the Local and the Global 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5 Gender and Language Use 258\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5.1 The “Female Deficit” Approach 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5.2 The “Cultural Difference” Approach 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5.3 The “Dominance” Approach 265\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.6 Investigating Gender Diversity 267\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.7 Talking about Men and Women 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.7.1 Generic he and man 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.7.2 Family names and addresses 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.7.3 Relationships of association 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.7.4 Labeling 272\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.8 The Question of Language Reform 273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.9 Further Reading 275\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 276\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Dialects and Style 281\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1 Types of Style Shifting 282\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2 Attention to Speech 286\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2.1 The patterning of stylistic variation across social groups 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2.2 Limitations of the attention to speech approach 291\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3 Audience Design 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3.1 The effects of audience on speech style 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3.2 Questions concerning audience design 298\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4 Speaker Design Approaches 301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4.1 Three approaches to style, “three waves” of quantitative sociolinguistic study 301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4.2 Studying stylistic variation from a speaker‐design perspective 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5 Further Considerations 306\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.6 Further Reading 307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 309\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 The Application of Dialect Study 311\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.1 Dialects and Assessment Testing 313\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.1.1 “Correctness” in assessing language achievement and development 314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.1.2 Testing linguistic knowledge 318\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.1.3 Using language to test other knowledge 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.1.4 The testing situation 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.2 Teaching Mainstream American English 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.2.1 What standard? 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.2.2 Approaches to MAE 326\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.2.3 Can MAE be taught? 328\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.3 Further Reading 334\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 335\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Dialect Awareness: Extending Application 337\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.1 Dialects and Reading 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.2 Dialect Influence in Written Language 340\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.3 Literary Dialect 343\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.4 Proactive Dialect Awareness Programs 347\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.5 Venues of Engagement 349\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.6 A Curriculum on Dialects 351\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.7 Scrutinizing Sociolinguistic Engagement 358\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.8 Further Reading 363\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWebsites 363\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 364\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: An Inventory of Distinguishing Dialect Features 367\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary 391\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 415\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406863245655,"sku":"9781118390221","price":39.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118390221.jpg?v=1730497373","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-english-9781118390221","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}