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.
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
"What is the 'meaning' of names like Coosa and Tallapoosa? Who named the Alabama and Tombigbee and Tennessee rivers? How are Cheaha and Conecuh and Talladega pronounced? How did Opelika and Tuscaloosa get their names? Questions like these, which are asked by laymen as well as by historians, geographers, and students of the English language, can be answered only by study of the origins and history of the Indian names that dot the map of Alabama.—from the Foreword
Originally published by Professor Read in 1937, this volume was revised, updated, and annotated in 1984 by James B. McMillan and remains the single best compedium on the topic.
A classic of English grammar, Essentials of English Grammar provides a common ground for the traditionalist and the structural or descriptive linguist. Jespersen’s work provides insight into the fundamental concepts that underlie the linguistic approach, but at the same time the foundation of the traditional approach is retained.
