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The New Dialectic
Because developments in informal logic have been based, for the most part, on idealized and abstract models, the tools available for argument analysis are not easily adapted to the …
Dialectology meets Typology
In what ways can dialectologists and language typologists profit from each others' work when looking across the fence? This is the guiding question of this volume, which involves …
African American Vernacular English
In response to the flood of interest in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) following the recent controversy over "Ebonics," this book brings together sixteen essays on the …
Folk Stories and Personal Narratives in Palestinian Spoken Arabic
By analysing the folk stories and personal narratives of a cross-section of Palestinians, Sirhan offers a detailed study of how content and sociolinguistic variables affect a …
Dialectology as Dialectic
Dialectology proper has traditionally focused on the geographic distribution of language variation as an end in itself and has remained relatively segregated from other branches of …
Borrowings in Informal American English
What do 'bimbo,' 'glitch,' 'savvy,' and 'shtick' all have in common? They are all expressions used in informal American English that have been taken from other languages. This …
The Dialectical Tradition in South Africa
This book brings into view the most enduring and distinctive philosophical current in South African history—one often obscured or patronized as Afrikaner liberalism. It traces this …
Voice and Discourse in the Irish Context
This book examines the intersection of culture and language in Ireland and Irish contexts. Over the course of the volume, the contributors also discuss how Irish voices are …
Dirty Dancin in Le Shebeen
Count on Maggie Muff and Big Sally-Ann, Belfast's ultimate tarts with hearts, to put a smile on your face.Its Big Sally-Anns birthday and, not content with the tent that Maggie …
Isolation and Language Change
Extremely isolated communities offer "laboratory conditions" for examining the processes of language change and dialect formation. This book presents findings of ethnographic …
Expanding Variationist Sociolinguistic Research in Varieties of German
This collection provides a broad account of variationist sociolinguistic research on varieties of German, with the goals to encourage greater geolinguistic diversity in the field …
The Historical Evolution of Earlier African American English
Based on a 500,000 word corpus of early sources collected from ex-slave narratives, ex-slave recordings, and interviews with hoodoo priests, this book reconstructs the English …