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  • Variable Properties in Language

    Their Nature and Acquisition

    Series series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
    This edited volume, based on papers presented at the 2017 Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics (GURT), approaches the study of language variation from a variety of angles. Language variation research asks broad questions such as, "Why are languages' grammatical structures different from one another?" as well as more specific word-level questions such as, "Why are words ... Leer más

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  • Conversations with Strangers

    de William Labov ...
    Series series Elements in Sociolinguistics
    This Element documents the evolution of a research program that began in the early 1960s with the author's first investigation of language change on Martha's Vineyard. It traces the development of what has become the basic framework for studying language variation and change. Interviews with strangers are the backbone of this research: the ten American English speakers appearing here were all ... Leer más

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  • Variation, Versatility and Change in Sociolinguistics and Creole Studies

    By the award-winning former president of the Linguistic Society of America, this collection of some of John Russell Rickford's pioneering works shows how linguists in sociolinguistics and creole studies can benefit from utilizing data, theories and methods from each other, as they more frequently did in the 1960s and 1970s, when both subfields, in their modern forms at least, were getting started. ... Leer más

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  • The Prodigal Tongue

    The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English

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    **CHOSEN BY THE ECONOMIST AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAn American linguist teaching in England explores the sibling rivalry between British and American English**“English accents are the sexiest.”“Americans have ruined the English language.”Such claims about the English language are often repeated but rarely examined. Professor Lynne Murphy is on the linguistic front line. In The Prodigal Tongue she ... Leer más

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  • Talking Back, Talking Black

    Truths About America's Lingua Franca

    “Superb.” —Steven Pinker“An explanation, a defense, and, most heartening, a celebration. . . . McWhorter demonstrates the ‘legitimacy’ of Black English by uncovering its complexity and sophistication, as well as the still unfolding journey that has led to its creation. . . . [His] intelligent breeziness is the source of the book’s considerable charm.” —New Yorker“Talking Back, Talking Black is ... Leer más

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  • The Story of Ain't

    America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published

    de David Skinner ...
    "It takes true brilliance to lift the arid tellings of lexicographic fussing into the readable realm of the thriller and the bodice-ripper….David Skinner has done precisely this, taking a fine story and honing it to popular perfection."—Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the MadmanThe Story of Ain't by David Skinner is the captivating true chronicle of the ... Leer más

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  • Word Myths:Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends

    Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends

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  • The Skin That We Speak

    Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom

    "Lucid, accessible" research on classroom language bias for educators and "parents concerned about questions of power and control in public schools" ( Publishers Weekly).In this collection of twelve essays, MacArthur Fellow Lisa Delpit and Kent State University Associate Professor Joanne Kilgour Dowdy take a critical look at the issues of language and dialect in the education system. The Skin That ... Leer más

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  • Spoken Soul

    The Story of Black English

    In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English"Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture."–Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown university"A lively, well-documented history of Black English . . . that will enlighten and inform not only educators, for whom it should be required reading, but all ... Leer más

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    In Pursuit of Wanted Words

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