The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 5: Language

247 Pages·2007·2.27 MB·English

by  Michael Montgomery & Ellen Johnson & Charles Reagan Wilson

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contents
GeneralIntroduction xi SiouanLanguages 106
Introduction xvii Spanish 109
TexasEnglish 115
language in the south
1 TidewaterVirginiaDialect 117
YuchiLanguage 120
AfricanAmericanEnglish 29
Afro-SeminoleCreole 36 AfricanAmericanDiscourse
AlgonquianLanguages 38 Features 123
AmericanSignLanguage 40 AfricanAmericanNaming
AppalachianEnglish 42 Patterns 124
BahamianEnglish 45 Conversation 127
Caddo 47 Creolization 129
CajunEnglish 49 DictionaryofAmericanRegional
Catawba 50 English 131
CharlestonEnglish 52 Fixin’to 133
ChesapeakeBayEnglish 54 FolkSpeech 134
Conch 57 Grammar,Changesin 137
ConfederateEnglishinBrazil 58 Illiteracy 141
French 60 LinguisticAtlasoftheGulfStates 142
German 65 LinguisticAtlasoftheMiddleand
Gullah 69 SouthAtlanticStates 147
ImmigrantLanguages,Recent 72 LinguistsandLinguistics 149
IndianTradeLanguages 78 LiteraryDialect 150
IndigenousLanguages,Other 82 McDavid,RavenI.,Jr. 154
IroquoianLanguages 85 Narrative 156
JewishLanguage 88 NorthCarolinaLanguageandLife
LiberianSettlerEnglish 91 Project 159
LumbeeEnglish 93 OratoricalThemes 161
MuskogeanLanguages 94 PerceptionsofSouthernEnglish 164
NatchezLanguage 98 PersonalNames 168
NewOrleansEnglish 100 Place-Names 171
OuterBanksEnglish 104 Politeness 174
OzarkEnglish 105 PreachingStyle,Black 178