An Atlas of English Dialects

Region and Dialect

By Clive Upton, J.D.A Widdowson

Do you call it April Fools’ Day, April Noddy Day or April Gowkin’ Day? Is the season before winter the Autumn, the Fall or the...

2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39233-4 (Routledge)

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Language Change

By Adrian Beard

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32056-6 (Routledge)

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Understanding African American Rhetoric

Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations

Edited by Ronald L. Jackson II, Elaine B. Richardson

This is an extraordinarily well-balanced collection of essays focused on varied expressions of African American Rhetoric; it also is a critical antidote to a...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94387-1 (Routledge)

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Black Linguistics

Language, Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas

By Arnetha Ball, Sinfree Makoni, Geneva Smitherman, Arthur K. Spears, Forward by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experiences.
The majority of Black...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26138-8 (Routledge)

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African American Literacies

By Elaine Richardson

African-American Literacies is a personal, public and political exploration of the problems faced by student writers from the African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) culture.
Drawing on personal...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26883-7 (Routledge)

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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

By Eric Partridge Edited by Paul Beale

The definitive work on slang and unconventional English, this edition is fully revised and updated by Paul Beale and includes some 500 new entries. The...

2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-29189-7 (Routledge)

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Talkin that Talk

Language, Culture and Education in African America

By Geneva Smitherman

A highly readable collection of key articles and essays by a leading scholar on African American language and politics. Discussing the inter-relationship between African American...

1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-20865-9 (Routledge)

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African-American English

Structure, History and Use

Edited by Guy Bailey, John Baugh, Salikoko S. Mufwene, John R. Rickford

African-American English: Structure, History and Use provides a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English. The main linguistic features are covered, in particular the...

1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-11733-3 (Routledge)

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English with an Accent

Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States

By Rosina Lippi-Green

In the best-selling textbook English with an Accent, Rosina Lippi-Green scrutinizes American attitudes towards language. Using examples drawn from a variety of contexts: the classroom,...

1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-11477-6 (Routledge)

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Survey English Dialects

1994 | Hardback: 978-0-415-02029-9 (Routledge)

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