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Languages and Dialects in the U.S.: Focus on Diversity and Linguistics book cover

1st Edition

Languages and Dialects in the U.S. Focus on Diversity and Linguistics

Edited By Marianna Di Paolo, Arthur K. Spears Copyright 2014
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge
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Languages and Dialects in the U.S. is a concise introduction to linguistic diversity in the U.S. for students with little to no background in linguistics. The goal of the editors of this collection of fourteen chapters, written by leading experts on the language varieties discussed, is to offer students detailed insight into the languages they speak or hear around them, grounded in... Read more
Part I: Setting the Stage  Part II: Indigenous U.S. Language Varieties  Part III: English and Other U.S Language Varieties

Biography

Marianna Di Paolo is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Utah.

Arthur K. Spears is Professor and Chair in the Anthropology Department at City College, the City University of New York.

'Paolo and Spears have written a very readable undergraduate text focusing on linguistic diversity in the US. The book does not cover the full range of diversity, but focuses instead on a sampling of languages and language varieties. Included are Native American languages (Navajo, Shoshoni, and Mandan), English (general variation, African American, and Chicano), Spanish (Southwest and Dominican), Creoles (Jamaican, Haitian), Chinese, and Louisiana and Creole French...The book is very clearly written and therefore accessible to nonspecialists.'

Choice - C. L. Thompson, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, USA

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