Published 1974
by Prentice-Hall in Englewood Cliffs, N.J .
Written in English
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 218-227.
| Statement | [by] Walt Wolfram [and] Ralph W. Fasold. |
| Contributions | Fasold, Ralph W., joint author. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PE2808 .W6 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xv, 239 p. |
| Number of Pages | 239 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL5041563M |
| ISBN 10 | 0138587876 |
| LC Control Number | 74000782 |
out of 5 stars The Study of Social Dialects in American English by Walter A. Wolfram Reviewed in the United States on Decem I have paid for the book published by "Amazon" entitled: The Study of Social Dialects in American English by Walter A. Wolfram that sould be arrived at my home Dec 3, (the latest),However, untill now I 1/5(1). This chapter explores the nature of social dialects within American English – in relation to which the stakes are much higher than they are for regional dialects. Your employability, intelligence, sincerity (even guilt) may be judged solely on the basis of the status-, ethnicity-, age- or gender-based variety you by: Dialects. Research Needs. cial Dialects. Sociolinguistics. Surveys. This paper begins with a discussion of the assumptions basic to the study of both language and social dialects: verbal systems are arbitrary. all languages. or. dialects are adequate as communicative systems. they are systematic and ordered and learned in the context of the. Additional Physical Format: Online version: Wolfram, Walt, Study of social dialects in American English. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [].
Black English is the best-known example of American social dialect. George Yule(),this refers to the traditional dialects tended to concentrate on the speech of people in rural areas, the study of social dialects has been mainly concerned with speakers in towns and cities. The study of social dialects in American English Item Preview remove-circle Speech and social status, Linguistics, Americanisms, Anglais (Langue) Internet Archive Language English. Includes bibliographical references (pages ) Access-restricted-item true. In the present study, a paired comparison similarity ratings task was used to obtain direct measures of perceptual similarity. Naive listeners were asked to make explicit judgments about the similarity of a set of talkers based on regional dialect. The talkers represented four regional varieties of . The Study of Social Dialects in American En- glish. Walt Wolfram and Ralph W. Fasold. En- glewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, vii + pp. $ (cloth.) Raven I. McDavid, Jr. University of Chicago and University of South Carolina Raymond K. OCain University of South Carolina The .
Important topics featured in Dialect and Language Variation include:**Dialect theories: linguistic geography, structural and generative dialectology, and language variation.**The nature of social dialects and language variation, with attention to women's speech.**Overview of regional dialects and area studies.**The nature and study of the. Dialects: Linguistic varieties which are distinguishable by their vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. A dialect can be of a particular district (regional dialect), a class (social dialect) or a group of people (ethnic dialect). Dialects are different from accents in that accents are only about pronunciation whereas. Walt Wolfram is William C. Friday Distinguished University Professor at North Carolina State University, and has authored numerous books including The Development of African American English (with Erik Thomas, Blackwell, ) and American Voices (co-edited with Ben Ward, Blackwell, ).His most recent book is Talkin’ Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina (). George Yule(),this refers to the traditional dialects tended to concentrate on the speech of people in rural áreas, the study of social dialects has been mainly concerned with speakers in towns and the study of dialects, it is social class that is mainly used to difined groups of speakers as having something in common.
