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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: MacNeil, Robert, 1931- Do you speak American? New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2005 (OCoLC)647279760 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert MacNeil; William Cran; Robert McCrum |
ISBN: | 0385511981 9780385511988 0739456733 9780739456736 |
OCLC Number: | 55877970 |
Notes: | Sequel to: The story of English. |
Description: | 228 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The language wars -- Changing dialects: dingbatters versus hoi-toiders -- Toward a standard: putting the "R" in "American" -- This ain't your mama's south anymore -- Hispanic immigration: reconquest or assimilation? -- Bad-mouthing black English -- Language from a state of change -- Teaching computers to speak American. |
Other Titles: | Do you speak American? (Television program) |
Responsibility: | Robert MacNeil and William Cran. |
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Abstract:
Offers a look at the origins, history, and current state of American spoken and written language, looking at the linguistic traditions in diverse regions of the country and assessing the influence of e-mail and other factors.
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- English language -- United States.
- English language -- Dialects -- United States.
- English language -- Variation -- United States.
- English language -- Social aspects -- United States.
- English language -- Spoken English -- United States.
- Americanisms.
- English language.
- English language -- Dialects.
- English language -- Social aspects.
- English language -- Spoken English.
- English language -- Variation.
- United States.
- Engels.
- Amerikaans.
- Dialecten.
- Taalverandering.
- Sociale aspecten.
- Spreektaal.
- Verenigde Staten.
- Amerikanisches Englisch
- Amerikanisches Englisch.
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