Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-first Century
Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-first Century By Edward Finegan, John R. Rickford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2004 | 520 Pages | ISBN: 0521771757 | PDF | 7 MB
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2004 | 520 Pages | ISBN: 0521771757 | PDF | 7 MB
This textbook furnishes a comprehensive survey of current language issues in the U.S., exploring the nature of language variation in the United States and its social, historical and political significance. The book is divided into three sections: Part I, American English; Part II, Other Language Varieties; and Part III, The Sociolinguistic Situation in the U.S.A.