Speaking of Alabama : The History, Diversity, Function, and Change of Language / edited by Thomas E. Nunnally ; foreword by Walt Wolfram ; afterword by Michael B. Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nunnally, Thomas, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Social aspects--Alabama.

English language--Variation--Alabama.

English language--Dialects--Alabama.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2018.

Summary:

Informative and entertaining essays on the accents, dialects, and speech patterns particular to Alabama Thomas E.Nunnally's fascinating volume presents essays by linguists who examine with affection and curiosity the speech varieties occurring both past and present across Alabama.

Contents:

Exploring language in Alabama / Thomas e. Nunnally

Multilingual Alabama / Michael D. Picone

Southern American English in Alabama / Catherine Evans Davies

Extreme North Alabama: cultural collisions and linguistic fallout / Thomas E. Nunnally and Guy Bailey

Just what is the southern drawl? / Crawford Feagin

The heart of Dixie is in their vowels: the relationship between culture and language in Huntsville, Alabama / Rachael Allbritten

The monophthongization of [a?] in Elba and the environs: a community study / Anna Head Spence

To [a:] or not to [a:] on the Gulf Coast of Alabama / Jocelyn Doxsey

"They sound better than we do": language attitudes in Alabama / J. Daniel Hasty

Code-switching between African American and standard English: the rules, the roles, and the rub / Kimberly Johnson with Thomas E. Nunnally

College writers as Alabama storytellers: cultural effects on academic writing / Charlotte Brammer

Tsalagi language revitalization and the Echota Cherokee / Robin Sabino

Afterword: some thoughts about ways ahead / Michael B. Montgomery.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8173-9198-3

OCLC:

1077769981