TY - BOOK ID - 26340078 TI - American English : dialects and variation. AU - Wolfram, Walt AU - Schilling-Estes, Natalie PY - 2006 SN - 9781405112659 1405112654 9781405112666 1405112662 PB - Oxford Blackwell,. DB - UniCat KW - English language KW - Dialectology KW - United States KW - #KVHA:Amerikaans Engels KW - Americanisms. KW - Dialects KW - Variation KW - Americanisms KW - #KVHA:American Studies KW - 802.0-087 KW - 802.0 <73> KW - 802.0-087 Engels: dialecten KW - Engels: dialecten KW - 802.0 <73> Amerikaans KW - Amerikaans KW - Dialect literature, American KW - Provincialisms KW - Germanic languages KW - United States of America UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:26340078 AB - This book provides a very readable, up-to-date description of language variation in American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences. contains new chapters on social and ethnic dialects, including a separate chapter on African American English and more comprehensive discussions of Latino, Native American, Cajun English, and other varieties, includes samples from a wider array of US regions features updated chapters as well as pedagogy such as new exercises, a phonetic symbols key, and a section on the notion of speech community accessibly written for the wide variety of students that enrol in a course on dialects, ranging from students with no background in linguistics to those who may wish to specialize in sociolinguistics ER -