List of Illustrations; Preface; 1 Language Evolution or Dying Traditions?The State of American Dialects Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes; 2 Sounds of the South Guy Bailey and Jan Tillery; 3 Defining Appalachian English Kirk Hazen and Ellen Fluharty; 4 If These Hills Could Talk (Smoky Mountains) Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, Bridget Anderson, and Neal Hutcheson; 5 Doing the Charleston (South Carolina) Maciej Baranowski; 6 The Lone Star State of Speech (Texas) Guy Bailey and Jan Tillery; 7 Speaking the Big Easy (New Orleans, La) Connie Eble.
18 Words of the Windy City (Chicago, Il) Richard Cameron19 Different Ways of Talking in the Buckeye State (Ohio) Beverly Olson Flanigan; 20 Spirited Speech (St. Louis, Mo) Thomas E. Murray; 21 Saying Ya to the Yoopers (Michigan 's Upper Peninsula) Beth Simon; 22 Getting Real in the Golden State (California) Penelope Eckert and Norma Mendoza-Denton; 23 Desert Dialect (Utah) David Bowie and Wendy Morkel; 24 Dialects in the Mist (Portland, Or) Jeff Conn; 25 Arizona 's not so Standard English Lauren Hall-Lew; 26 Topics from the Tropics (Hawai 'i) Miriam Meyerhoff.
27 Speaking Strictly Roots (West Indies) Renee Blake28 Gullah Gullah Islands (Sea Island, Sc, Ga) Tracey L. Weldon; 29 Islands of Diversity (Bahamas) Walt Wolfram, Becky Childs, Jeffrey Reaser, and Benjamin Torbert; 30 Dialects in Danger (Outer Banks, Nc) Walt Wolfram; 31 Fighting the Tide (Smith Island, Md) Natalie Schilling-Estes; 32 From Cod to Cool (Newfoundland, Canada) Sandra Clarke; 33 The World 's Loneliest Dialect (Tristan da Cunha) Daniel Schreier; 34 Bridging the Great Divide (African American English) John Baugh.
35 When Linguistic Worlds Collide (African American English) Walt Wolfram and Benjamin Torbert36 Talkin ' with mi Gente (Chicano English) Carmen Fought; 37 Stirring the Linguistic Gumbo (Cajun English) Megan E. Melançon; 38 From the Brickhouse to the Swamp (Lumbee Vernacular English) Walt Wolfram; 39 More than Just Yada Yada Yada (Jewish English) Cynthia Bernstein; 40 Fading Future for Ferhoodled English (Pennsylvania German) Marion Lois Huffines; Notes on Contributors.
8 Sounds of Ole Man River (Memphis, Tn) Valerie Fridland9 Yakking with the Yankees (New England) Julie Roberts, Naomi Nagy, and Charles Boberg; 10 Beantown Babble (Boston, Ma) Jim Fitzpatrick; 11 Mainely English Jane S. Smith; 12 Steel Town Speak (Pittsburgh, Pa) Barbara Johnstone and Scott Kiesling; 13 New York Tawk (New York City, Ny) Michael Newman; 14 Expressions of Brotherly Love (Philadelphia, Pa) Claudio Salvucci; 15 Maple Leaf Rap (Canada) J.K. Chambers; 16 An Introduction to Midwest English Timothy C. Frazer; 17 Straight Talking from the Heartland (Midwest) Matthew J. Gordon.
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American Voices is a collection of short, readable descriptions of various American dialects, written by top researchers in the field. written by top researchers in the field and includes Southern English, New England speech, Chicano English, Appalachian English, Canadian English, and California English, among many others fascinating look at the full range of American social, ethnic, and regional dialects written for the lay person.
American Voices : How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast.