Dialect Notes
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Page : 670 pages
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Release : 1912
Category : English language
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Page : 670 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 1912
Category : English language
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Page : 668 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 1966
Category : English language
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Page : 340 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 1894
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Author : Rob Penhallurick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,54 MB
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1137584084
This book provides an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to the study of the dialects of English as they are spoken around the world, from the earliest dialect dictionaries of the sixteenth century to contemporary research emerging from the field of geolinguistics. Organised into ten thematic chapters, it explores and evaluates the methods and purposes of each approach to the study of dialectal variation, with full explanations of technical terms throughout. Illuminating one of the most productive fields of interest in language study, this compelling book is essential reading for students of dialect and regional difference in English.
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Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
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ISBN : 1135851573
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
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Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1108017851
This ground-breaking 1980 study of over 200 Australian languages is still valuable, especially for its non-technical opening chapters.
Author : H. L. Mencken
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1616402598
"Replica of the 1921 'revised and enlarged' second edition"--Jacket
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0307813444
The DEFINITIVE EDITION OF The American Language was published in 1936. Since then it has been recognized as a classic. It is that rarest of literary accomplishments—a book that is authoritative and scientific and is at the same time very diverting reading. But after 1936 HLM continued to gather new materials diligently. In 1945 those which related to the first six chapters of The American Language were published as Supplement I; the present volume contains those new materials which relate to the other chapters. The ground thus covered in Supplement II is as follows: 1. American Pronunciation. Its history. Its divergence from English usage. The regional and racial dialects. 2. American Spelling. The influence of Noah Webster upon it. Its characters today. The simplified spelling movement. The treatment of loan words. Punctuation, capitalization, and abbreviation. 3. The Common Speech. Outlines of its grammar. Its verbs, pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. The double negative. Other peculiarities. 4. Proper Names in America. Surnames. Given-names. Place-names. Other names. 5. American Slang. Its origin and history. The argot of various racial and occupational groups. Although the text of Supplement II is related to that of The American Language, it is an independent work that may be read profitably by persons who do not know either The American Language or Supplement I.
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 2012-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0307808793
The American Language, first published in 1919, is H. L. Mencken's book about the English language as spoken in the United States. Mencken was inspired by "the argot of the colored waiters" in Washington, as well as one of his favorite authors, Mark Twain, and his experiences on the streets of Baltimore. In 1902, Mencken remarked on the "queer words which go into the making of 'United States.'" The book was preceded by several columns in The Evening Sun. Mencken eventually asked "Why doesn't some painstaking pundit attempt a grammar of the American language... English, that is, as spoken by the great masses of the plain people of this fair land?" It would appear that he answered his own question. In the tradition of Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary, Mencken wanted to defend "Americanisms" against a steady stream of English critics, who usually isolated Americanisms as borderline barbarous perversions of the mother tongue. Mencken assaulted the prescriptive grammar of these critics and American "schoolmarms", arguing, like Samuel Johnson in the preface to his dictionary, that language evolves independently of textbooks. The book discusses the beginnings of "American" variations from "English", the spread of these variations, American names and slang over the course of its 374 pages. According to Mencken, American English was more colorful, vivid, and creative than its British counterpart.