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Speaking of Alabama

Speaking of Alabama

The History, Diversity, Function, and Change of Language

Edited by Thomas E. Nunnally

Foreword by Walt Wolfram

Afterword by Michael B. Montgomery

Contributions by Rachael Allbritten, Guy H. Bailey, Charlotte Brammer, Catherine Evans Davies, Jocelyn Doxsey, Crawford Feagin, James Daniel Hasty, Kimberly Johnson, Thomas E. Nunnally, Michael D. Picone, Robin Sabino and Anna Head Spence

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

Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English

by James B. McMillan and Michael B. Montgomery

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

Caribbean Literary Discourse

Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean

by Barbara Lalla, Jean D'Costa and Velma Pollard

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

Language Variety in the South Revisited

Edited by Cynthia Bernstein, Thomas E. Nunnally and Robin Sabino

Price: $49.95

ISBN: 9780817357443

Pub Date: January 2014

Format: Paperback

Top linguists from diverse fields address language varieties in the South.

Heartland English

Heartland English

Variation and Transition in the American Midwest

Edited by Timothy C. Frazer

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

Yiddish & English

The Story of Yiddish in America

by Sol Steinmetz

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

From the Gulf States and Beyond

The Legacy of Lee Pederson and LAGS

Edited by Michael B. Montgomery and Thomas E. Nunnally

Contributions by Edgar W. Schneider, Anne M. Fitts, John Stanley Rich, Susan Leas McDaniel, Virginia G. McDavid, William A. Kretzschmar and John Algeo

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

Ulster Scots Speech

A Sociolinguistic Study

by Rona K. Kingsmore

Edited by Michael B. Montgomery

Foreword by James Milroy and Lesley Milroy

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

Poetic Voices

Discourse Linguistics and the Poetic Text

by Timothy R. Austin

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

The Germanic Languages

Origins and Early Dialectal Interrelations

by Hans Frede Nielsen

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
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