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Title Speaking of Alabama : the history, diversity, function, and change of language / edited by Thomas E. Nunnally ; foreword by Walt Wolfram ; afterword by Michael B. Montgomery.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Exploring language in Alabama / Thomas e. Nunnally -- Multilingual Alabama / Michael D. Picone -- Southern American English in Alabama / Catherine Evans Davies -- Extreme North Alabama: cultural collisions and linguistic fallout / Thomas E. Nunnally and Guy Bailey -- Just what is the southern drawl? / Crawford Feagin -- The heart of Dixie is in their vowels: the relationship between culture and language in Huntsville, Alabama / Rachael Allbritten -- The monophthongization of [a?] in Elba and the environs: a community study / Anna Head Spence -- To [a:] or not to [a:] on the Gulf Coast of Alabama / Jocelyn Doxsey -- "They sound better than we do": language attitudes in Alabama / J. Daniel Hasty -- Code-switching between African American and standard English: the rules, the roles, and the rub / Kimberly Johnson with Thomas E. Nunnally -- College writers as Alabama storytellers: cultural effects on academic writing / Charlotte Brammer -- Tsalagi language revitalization and the Echota Cherokee / Robin Sabino -- Afterword: some thoughts about ways ahead / Michael B. Montgomery.
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Subject English language -- Dialects -- Alabama.
English language -- Dialects.
Alabama.
English language -- Variation -- Alabama.
English language -- Variation.
English language -- Social aspects -- Alabama.
English language -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Nunnally, Thomas, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Speaking of Alabama. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2018 9780817319939 (DLC) 2018005493 (OCoLC)1028584617
ISBN 9780817391980 (electronic book)
0817391983 (electronic book)
9780817319939
081731993X