American Voices How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast [Hardcover]

• written by top researchers in the field and includes Southern English, New England speech, Chicano English, Appalachian English, Canadian English, and California English, among many others
  
• fascinating look at the full range of American social, ethnic, and regional dialects written for the lay person

Preface.

1. Language Evolution or Dying Traditions. The State of American Dialects. (Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes).

Part I The South.

2. Sounds of the South. (Guy Bailey and Jan Tillery).

3. Defining Appalachian English. (Kirk Hazen and Ellen Fluharty).

4. If these Hills Could Talk (Smoky Mountains). (Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, Neal Hutcheson, and Bridget Anderson).

5. Doing the Charleston (South Carolina). (Maciej Baranowski).

6. The Lone Star State of Speech (Texas).(Guy Bailey and Jan Tillery).

7. Speaking the Big Easy (New Orleans, LA). (Connie Eble).

8. Sounds of Ole Man River (Memphis, TN). (Valerie Fridland).

Part II The North.

9. Yakking with the Yankees (New England). (Julie Roberts, Naomi Nagy, and Charles Boberg).

10. Beantown Babble (Boston, MA). (Jim Fitzpatrick).

11. Mainely English. (Jane Smith).

12. Steel Town Speak (Pittsburgh, PA). (Barbara Johnstone and Scott Kiesling).

13. New Yawk Tawk (New York City, NY). (Michael Newman).

14. Expressions of Brotherly Love (Philadelphia, PA). (Claudio Salvucci).

15. Maple Leaf Rap (Canada). (lC9