American English: Dialects and Variation (Language in Society)

By: Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes

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This book provides a very readable, up-to-date description of language variation in American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences.

• contains new chapters on social and ethnic dialects, including a separate chapter on African American English and more comprehensive discussions of Latino, Native American, Cajun English, and other varieties,


• includes samples from a wider array of US regions


• features updated chapters as well as pedagogy such as new exercises, a phonetic symbols key, and a section on the notion of speech community


• accessibly written for the wide variety of students that enrol in a course on dialects, ranging from students with no background in linguistics to those who may wish to specialize in sociolinguistics

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