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Contours of English and English language studies

Title
Contours of English and English language studies / edited by Michael Adams, Anne Curzan.
Publication
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Adams, Michael, 1961-
  • Curzan, Anne.
Description
iv, 371 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Subject
  • English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching > Case studies
  • Academic writing > Study and teaching > Case studies
  • Academic writing > Study and teaching
  • English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching
  • Amerikanisches Englisch
  • Angewandte Linguistik
  • Anglistik
  • Englisch
  • Historische Sprachwissenschaft
  • Lexikografie
  • Linguistik
  • Sprachvariante
  • Dialektologie
  • Fremdsprachenlernen
Genre/Form
  • Aufsatzsammlung.
  • Case studies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-362) and index.
Contents
Michigander talk: God's own English / Dennis R. Preston -- The African American English canon in sociolinguistics / Walt Wolfram -- The beholder's eye: using self-organizing maps to understand American dialects / William A. Kretzshmar -- To continue moving forward in English language and linguistics research in the twenty-first century / Sonja J. Laneheart -- Benjamin Smart and Michael Faraday: the principles and practices of "talking proper" in nineteenth-century England / Lynda Mugglestone -- The etymology of the word wife / Anatoly Liberman -- English into Asia: from Singaporean ubiquity to Chinese learners' features / Edgar W. Schneider -- History of the English language in the English department: past and present / Colette Moore -- New suckers from the old root / Joan Houston Hall -- How quotation paragraphs in historical dictionaries work: the Oxford English dictionary / Jesse Sheidlower -- The core or the periphery? The lack of a Dictionary of Irish English on historical principles / Michael B. Montgomery -- Embracing the digital siren: collaborative lexicography in the twenty-first century / Marsha L. Dutton -- African American language and education: how far have we come? / Geneva Smitherman and Minnie Quartey-Annan -- Language and education: the more things change / Dennis Baron -- Written language in use: an essay on returning language to writing studies / Amy J. Devitt -- Watch the language: scholarship, teaching, and change / Susanmarie Harrington.
ISBN
  • 9780472034666
  • 0472034669
LCCN
2011284797
OCLC
  • ocn756510894
  • SCSB-14145651
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library