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Format: 1 online resource (476 pages) : , illustrations.

Edition: Reprint 2015

ISBN: 3-11-081334-3

Series Statement: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] ; 29

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , General Introduction -- , PART ONE. Native English-Speaking Immigrants -- , Introduction -- , British Recognition of American Speech in the Eighteenth Century / , The Rise of the American English Vowel Pattern / , American English Dialectology: Alternatives for the Southwest / , PART TWO. The Sea and the American Frontier -- , Introduction -- , Sea Terms Come Ashore / , Larrupin': From Nautical Word to Multiregionalism / , New York City and the Antebellum South: The Maritime Connection / , Slang and Words with their Origin on the River / , Sailors' and Cowboys' Folklore in Two Popular Classics / , The Origin of Mott in Anglo-Texan Vegetational Terminology / , Communication in a Frontier Society / , PART THREE. Immigration and Migration -- , Introduction -- , The American Language / , The Study of the English of the Pennsylvania Germans / , The Yiddish is Showing / , The Ethnolectal English of American Gypsies / , Spanglish: Language Contact in Puerto Rico / , The Melting Pot and Language Maintenance in South Slavic Immigrant Groups / , PART FOUR. Black English -- , Introduction -- , The Language Behavior of Negroes and Whites / , Texan Gullah: The Creole English of the Brackettville Afro-Seminoles / , Black English near its Roots: The Transplanted West African Creoles / , Cut-Eye and Suck-Teeth: African Words and Gestures in New World Guise / , The Creole 'Copula' that Highlighted the World / , Have/Got in the Speech of Anglo and Black Children / , Interrelatedness of Certain Deviant Grammatical Structures in Negro Nonstandard Dialects / , PART FIVE. Pidgin English -- , Introduction -- , American Indian Pidgin English: Attestations and Grammatical Peculiarities / , Attestations of American Indian Pidgin English in Fiction and Nonfiction / , Categories of Transformations in Second Language Acquisition / , Chinese Telegrams / , References to Introductions , Issued also in print. , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 90-279-3367-7

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

DOI: 10.1515/9783110813340