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Nativism reborn? : the official English language movement and the American states
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ISBN: 0813119189 Year: 1995 Publisher: Lexington, KY University Press of Kentucky

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Varieties of American English
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ISBN: 0804709823 9780804709828 Year: 1980 Publisher: Stanford, Calif.


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American and British English
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ISBN: 9781107088863 9781107460881 1107088860 1107460883 9781316105313 1108365108 1108363547 1316105318 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Is British English becoming more like American English? If so, why, and in what ways? This book compares examples of American and British language data from the 1930s, 1960s, 1990s and 2000s, to track the most important ways that both varieties are changing over time, and compares the extent to which they are following similar paths using a mixture of computer and human analysis. The analysis is carried out across several levels, including spelling differences (such as colour vs color), vocabulary (truck vs lorry), and a range of morphological, grammatical, semantic and pragmatic features. Baker explores the changing aspects of American and British society which help to explain the findings.

An introduction to American English
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ISBN: 0631197923 0631197915 9780631197928 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell Publishers

New Zealand English
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ISBN: 9789027275479 9027275475 1556197233 9781556197239 9027248834 9789027248831 9027248850 1283358328 9786613358325 1588110451 9786612162329 1282162322 9027297983 158811046X 9781588110466 9781588110459 Year: 1999 Volume: 27 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.

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This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally. It explores the relationship between AAE and other varieties of English (namely Southern White Vernaculars, Gullah, and Caribbean English creoles), language use in the African American community (e.g., Hip Hop, women's language, and directness), and application of our knowledge about AAE to issues in education (e.g., improving overall academic success). To its credit (since most books avoid the issue), the volume also seeks to define the term 'AAE' and challenge researchers to address the complexity of defining a language and its speakers. The volume collectively tries to help readers better understand language use in the African American community and how that understanding benefits all who value language variation and the knowledge such study brings to our society.

English with an accent : language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States
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ISBN: 0415114772 0415114764 9780415114769 9780415114776 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Routledge

Grammar in interaction : adverbial clauses in American English conversations
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ISBN: 0521418038 0521023750 0511554273 9780521418034 9780511554278 9780521023757 Year: 1993 Volume: 9 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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Cecilia E. Ford explores the question: what work do adverbial clauses do in conversational interaction? Her analysis of this predominating conjunction strategy in English conversation is based on the assumption that grammars reflect recurrent patterns of situated language use, and that a primary site for language is in spontaneous talk. She considers the interactional as well as the informational work of talk and shows how conversationalists use grammar to coordinate their joint language production. The management of the complexities of the sequential development of a conversation, and the social roles of conversational participants, have been extensively examined within the sociological approach of Conversation Analysis. Dr Ford uses Conversation Analysis as a framework for the interpretation of interclausal relations in her database of American English conversations. Her book contributes to a growing body of research on grammar in discourse, which has until recently remained largely focused on monologic rather than dialogic functions of language.

Socio- and Stylolinguistic Perspectives on American Indian English Texts
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ISBN: 0773418695 9780773418691 0773473467 9780773473461 0889464820 9780889464827 Year: 2001 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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Part One interprets cultural meanings as revealed in prosodic and temporal phenomena in spoken English discourse data. The emerging theme is the (re)construction of American Indian tribal identities in terms of a newly created intertribal consciousness in an urban setting. Part Two introduces an ethnography of writing approach not only as a contribution to the intersection of linguistics and literature in general but as a valid approach to American Indian texts in particular.

African American vernacular English: features, evolution, educational implications
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ISBN: 0631212450 9780631212454 Year: 1999 Volume: 26 Publisher: Malden, Mass. Blackwell

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