TY - BOOK ID - 77904739 TI - New perspectives on language variety in the South : historical and contemporary approaches AU - Picone, Michael D. AU - Davies, Catherine Evans PY - 2015 SN - 0817387366 9780817387365 9780817318154 0817318151 PB - Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, DB - UniCat KW - Americanisms KW - Language and culture KW - Language and languages KW - English language KW - Foreign languages KW - Languages KW - Anthropology KW - Communication KW - Ethnology KW - Information theory KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Philology KW - Linguistics KW - Germanic languages KW - Culture and language KW - Culture KW - Pronunciation. KW - Dialects KW - Variation KW - Provincialisms KW - Southern States KW - Languages. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77904739 AB - The third installment in the landmark LAVIS (Language Variety in the South) series, New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches brings together essays devoted to the careful examination and elucidation of the rich linguistic diversity of the American South, updating and broadening the work of the earlier volumes by more fully capturing the multifaceted configuration of languages and dialects in the South. Beginning with an introduction to American Indian languages of the Southeast, five fascinating essays discuss indigenous languages, including Cad ER -