Title Needed research in American dialects / [edited by] Dennis R. Preston.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PE2841 .N44 2003	Available	---

Description	xii, 261 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series	Publication of the American Dialect Society ; no. 88
	Publication of the American Dialect Society ; no. 88.
Note	"Annual supplement to American Speech."
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Introduction / Dennis R. Preston --1. The History of American English / Michael Montgomery -- 2. Linguistic Atlases of the United States and Canada / William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. -- 3. Regional lexicon: DARE and beyond / Joan Houston Hall -- 4. A national survey of North American dialects / Sharon Ash --5. Conversation, text, and discourse / Barbara Johnstone -- 6. Social variation in America / Penelope Eckert -- 7. Ideologies, attitudes, and perceptions / Richard W. Bailey -- 8. Slang, metaphor, and folk speech / Connie C. Eble -- 9. Languages other than English in Canada and the United States / Robert Bayley and Ruth King -- 10. Language change in variation and formal syntax / Ralph W. Fasold.
Subject	English language -- Dialects -- North America.
	English language -- Dialects.
	North America.
	English language -- Variation -- North America.
	English language -- Variation.
	English language -- Dialects -- United States.
	United States.
	English language -- Variation -- United States.
	English language -- Dialects -- Canada.
	Canada.
	English language -- Variation -- Canada.
Added Author	Preston, Dennis Richard.
Added Title	American speech.
ISBN	0822365944