Language Variation and Change in the American Midland
A New Look at 'Heartland' English
This volume explores the linguistic complexities and critical issues of the Midland dialect area of the USA, and contains a unique data-based set of investigations of the Midlands dialect. The authors demonstrate that the large central part of the United States known colloquially as the Heartland, geo-culturally as the Midwest, and linguistically as the Midland is a very real dialect area, one with regional cohesiveness, social complexity, and psycho-emotional impact. The individual essays problematize historical origins, track linguistic markers of social identity over time and across social spaces, frame dialect issues within the linguistic…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-90-272-9354-1
- EAN: 9789027293541
- Produktnummer: 22561768
- Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'819 KB
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