New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches - Image 1

£53.73

University Alabama Press New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches

Name: New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches
Brand: University Alabama Press
Price: 52.77 GBP
Availability: InStock

Historical & Comparative Linguistics

Price History & Forecast

Last 43 days • 43 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 43 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £54 (34 days, 79.1%)

Price range: £53 - £54

Price levels: 2 different prices over 43 days

Description

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 Caddo, Ofo, and Timucua, and evidence for the connection between the Pre-Columbian Southeast and the Caribbean. Five essays explore the earlier Englishes of the South, covering topics such as the eighteenth century as the key period in the differentiation of Southern American English and the use of new quantitative methods to trace the transfer of linguistic features from England to America. They examine a range of linguistic resources, such as plantation overseers’ writings, modern blues lyrics, linguistic databases, and lexical and locutional compilations that reveal the region’s distinctive dialectal traditions. New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches widens the scope of inquiry into the linguistic influences of the African diaspora as evidenced in primary sources and records. A comprehensive essay redefines the varieties of French in Louisiana, tracing the pathway from Colonial Louisiana to the emergence of Plantation Society French in a diglossic relationship with Louisiana Creole. A further essay maps the shift from French to English in family documents. An assortment of essays on English in the contemporary South touch on an array of compelling topics from discourse strategies to dialectal emblems of identity to stereotypes in popular perception. Essays about recent Latino immigrants to the South bring the collection into the twenty-first century, taking into account the dramatic increase in the population of Spanish speakers and illuminating the purported role of “Spanglish,” the bilingual lives of Spanish-speaking Latinos in Mississippi, and the existence of regional Spanish dialectal diversity.

Product Specifications

Brand: University Alabama Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0817318151
Category: Books > Subjects > Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative Linguistics
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 December 2014
Listed Since: 12 June 2014

Barcode

No barcode data available

University Alabama Press New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Language in Louisiana: Community and Culture (America's Third Coast Series)

Language Variety in the New South: Contemporary Perspectives on Change and Variation

Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English

Routledge - Language and Linguistic Diversity in the US Textbook

Routledge A Sociolinguistics of the South - Academic Book

The American South and the Atlantic World

Routledge Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education Book

Routledge Linguistic Planets of Belief - Language Study Book

The Languages of Native America: Historical and Comparative Assessment

Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change: Insights from the Global North and South (Routledge Studies in Language Change)

Southern Regional French: A Linguistic Analysis of Language and Dialect Contact

Songs of the Reconstructing South: Building Literary Louisiana, 1865-1945: 11 (Contributions to the Study of American Literature)

African American, Creole, and Other Vernacular Englishes in Education: A Bibliographic Resource (NCTE-Routledge Research Series)

Routledge - Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics

Routledge Integrational Linguistics and Philosophy of Language

Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers: New Voices, New Perspectives

European Empires in the American South: Colonial and Environmental Encounters (Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series)

Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies

Emerging Hispanicized English in the Nuevo New South: Language Variation in a Triethnic Community (Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics)

Springer - French and Creole in Louisiana Linguistics Book

French and Creole in Louisiana (Topics in Language and Linguistics)

Routledge Teaching Language Variation in the Classroom Book

Africa Meets Europe: Language Contact in West Africa

African-American English: Structure, History, and Use (Routledge Linguistics Classics)