This standard text, now in paperback for the first time-- the companion volume to Foreign Dialects-- AmericanDialects offers representative dialects of every ma
This book provides a very readable, up-to-date description of language variation in American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences. c
"Focusing on some 2,000 dialect expressions, [this book] traces cultural and historical forces that have shaped these speech regions and given them their charac
The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect