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Speaking of Alabama
The History, Diversity, Function, and Change of Language
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817319939
Pub Date: December 2018
Format: Hardcover
Informative and entertaining essays on the accents, dialects, and speech patterns particular to Alabama
Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817359362
Pub Date: December 2018
Format: Paperback
A collection of the total range of scholarly and popular writing on English as spoken from Maryland to Texas and from Kentucky to Florida
Caribbean Literary Discourse
Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817318079
Pub Date: February 2014
Format: Hardcover
Caribbean Literary Discourse is a study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized languages that characterize Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writers.
Language Variety in the South Revisited
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817357443
Pub Date: January 2014
Format: Paperback
Top linguists from diverse fields address language varieties in the South.
Heartland English
Variation and Transition in the American Midwest
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817352448
Pub Date: February 2005
Format: Paperback
“Heartland” English is the first book-length scholarly treatment of English spoken in the Midwest, or the northern interior of the continental United States. Frazer and his contributors focus on the myth of a uniform, “Midwestern” variety of American English. They show the complex region in which forces-old and new- have led to variety in the spoken language.
Yiddish & English
The Story of Yiddish in America
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780817311032
Pub Date: July 2001
Format: Paperback
This is the only book to seriously treat the intriguing linguistic and cultural phenomenon of the intimate contact between Yiddish and English over the past 120 years.
From the Gulf States and Beyond
The Legacy of Lee Pederson and LAGS
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817309480
Pub Date: November 1998
Format: Paperback
This collection of essays demonstrates the importance of the Linguistic
Atlas of the Gulf States (LAGS) as a defining linguistic study of this
century, though one of the most underused.
Ulster Scots Speech
A Sociolinguistic Study
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817307110
Pub Date: March 1995
Format: Paperback
This book examines phonological variation of the inhabitants of Coleraine, a small town in Northern Ireland.
Poetic Voices
Discourse Linguistics and the Poetic Text
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780817307264
Pub Date: July 1994
Format: Paperback
In Poetic Voices, Austin demonstrates some of the potential applications of such a discourse-based stylistics by pursuing what amounts to a literary conundrum, an apparent anomaly at the heart of a well-respected text, William Wordsworth’s “Resolution and Independence.”
The Germanic Languages
Origins and Early Dialectal Interrelations
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817304232
Pub Date: March 1989
Format: Paperback
A revised and translated version of De germanske sprog. Baggrund og gruppe'ring (Odense University Press, 1979), which has been out of print for several years

Speaking of Alabama
The History, Diversity, Function, and Change of Language
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817319939
Pub Date: December 2018
Format: Hardcover
Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817359362
Pub Date: December 2018
Format: Paperback
Caribbean Literary Discourse
Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817318079
Pub Date: February 2014
Format: Hardcover
Language Variety in the South Revisited
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817357443
Pub Date: January 2014
Format: Paperback
Top linguists from diverse fields address language varieties in the South.
Heartland English
Variation and Transition in the American Midwest
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817352448
Pub Date: February 2005
Format: Paperback
“Heartland” English is the first book-length scholarly treatment of English spoken in the Midwest, or the northern interior of the continental United States. Frazer and his contributors focus on the myth of a uniform, “Midwestern” variety of American English. They show the complex region in which forces-old and new- have led to variety in the spoken language.
Yiddish & English
The Story of Yiddish in America
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780817311032
Pub Date: July 2001
Format: Paperback
This is the only book to seriously treat the intriguing linguistic and cultural phenomenon of the intimate contact between Yiddish and English over the past 120 years.
From the Gulf States and Beyond
The Legacy of Lee Pederson and LAGS
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817309480
Pub Date: November 1998
Format: Paperback
This collection of essays demonstrates the importance of the Linguistic
Atlas of the Gulf States (LAGS) as a defining linguistic study of this
century, though one of the most underused.
Ulster Scots Speech
A Sociolinguistic Study
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817307110
Pub Date: March 1995
Format: Paperback
Poetic Voices
Discourse Linguistics and the Poetic Text
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780817307264
Pub Date: July 1994
Format: Paperback
In Poetic Voices, Austin demonstrates some of the potential applications of such a discourse-based stylistics by pursuing what amounts to a literary conundrum, an apparent anomaly at the heart of a well-respected text, William Wordsworth’s “Resolution and Independence.”
The Germanic Languages
Origins and Early Dialectal Interrelations
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817304232
Pub Date: March 1989
Format: Paperback