[PDF] American English Today eBook

Author : D. H. Howe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780194343091

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A collection of stories, games, puzzles, and other exercises and activities designed to improve communication and listening skills for students of English as a second language.

Author : Hans Paul Guth
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 1970
Category : English language
ISBN :

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Graded texts offer instruction in composition, word study, grammar, usage, mechanics, and speech.

Author : Allan A. Metcalf
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780618043620

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In short, delightful essays, a professor of English explains the key features that make American speech so expressive and distinct. With chapters on ethnic dialects and dialects in the movies, the author reveals the resplendence of one of our nation's greatest natural resources--its endless and varied talk.

Author : Walt Wolfram
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1118391454

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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

Author : Zoltan Kovecses
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 2000-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1551112299

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This book is a cultural-historical (rather than purely linguistic) introduction to American English. The first part consists of a general account of variation in American English. It offers concise but comprehensive coverage of such topics as the history of American English; regional, social and ethnic variation; variation in style (including slang); and British and American differences. The second part of the book puts forward an account of how American English has developed into a dominant variety of the English language. It focuses on the ways in which intellectual traditions such as puritanism and republicanism, in shaping the American world view, have also contributed to the distinctiveness of American English.

Author : Hans Paul Guth
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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Graded texts offer instruction in composition, word study, grammar, usage, mechanics, and speech.