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
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
A study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized languages that characterize Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writers
“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.
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.
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.
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.”
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
