American Regional Dialects: A Word GeographyUniversity of Michigan Press, 1987 - 317 Seiten This text describes the dialect areas of the United States. Focusing on some 2,000 dialect expressions, it traces cultural and historical forces that have shaped these speech regions and given them their characteristic vocabularies. The author not only explains the genesis and character of the dialects, but also explores the geographical and etymological origins of many unique words and phrases in the various dialects. Nearly 100 maps help define the dialect boundaries and individual isoglosses. |
Inhalt
CHAPTER | 1 |
New England and the Northeast | 21 |
The North | 53 |
The South | 93 |
The Lower South | 125 |
The Upper South and Lower North Dialects | 161 |
The West | 205 |
Conclusion | 245 |
A Lists of Map Words | 253 |
B Regional Counterparts | 267 |
Abbreviations | 275 |
Glossary Index | 291 |
Subject Index | 309 |
Urheberrecht | |
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