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Author | : Christopher Davies |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2007-09-26 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780547350288 |
Download Divided by a Common Language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This guide to the language differences between the United States and United Kingdom is “a fascinating collection full of all kinds of surprises” (Minneapolis Star Tribune). Taxi rank . . . toad in the hole . . . dustman . . . fancy dress . . . American visitors to London (or viewers of British TV shows) might be confused by these terms. But most Britons would be equally puzzled by words like caboose, bleachers, and busboy. In Divided by a Common Language, Christopher Davies explains these expressions and discusses the many differences in pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary between British and American English. He compares the customs, manners, and practical details of daily life in the United Kingdom and the United States, and American readers will enjoy his account of American culture as seen through an Englishman’s eyes. Davies tops it off with an amusing list of expressions that sound innocent enough in one country but make quite the opposite impression in the other. Two large glossaries help travelers translate from one variety of English to the other, and additional lists explain the distinctive words of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. This delightful book is the ideal companion for travelers—or anyone who enjoys the many nuances of language.
Author | : John Algeo |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 2006-08-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139457322 |
Download British or American English? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Speakers of British and American English display some striking differences in their use of grammar. In this detailed survey, John Algeo considers questions such as: •Who lives on a street, and who lives in a street? •Who takes a bath, and who has a bath? •Who says Neither do I, and who says Nor do I? •After 'thank you', who says Not at all and who says You're welcome? •Whose team are on the ball, and whose team isn't? Containing extensive quotations from real-life English on both sides of the Atlantic, collected over the past twenty years, this is a clear and highly organized guide to the differences - and the similarities - between the grammar of British and American speakers. Written for those with no prior knowledge of linguistics, it shows how these grammatical differences are linked mainly to particular words, and provides an accessible account of contemporary English in use.
Author | : Zoltan Kovecses |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2000-09-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1551112299 |
Download American English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a cultural-historical (rather than purely linguistic) introduction to American English. The first part consists of a general account of variation in American English. It offers concise but comprehensive coverage of such topics as the history of American English; regional, social and ethnic variation; variation in style (including slang); and British and American differences. The second part of the book puts forward an account of how American English has developed into a dominant variety of the English language. It focuses on the ways in which intellectual traditions such as puritanism and republicanism, in shaping the American world view, have also contributed to the distinctiveness of American English.
Author | : Richard W. Bailey |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012-01-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 019517934X |
Download Speaking American Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Speaking American shows what the English language looked like from various points on the American continent at crucial points in its linguistic history.
Author | : J. L. Dillard |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2014-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317899598 |
Download A History of American English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This impressive volume provides a chronological, narrative account of the development of American English from its earliest origins to the present day.
Author | : Claudine Dervaes |
Publisher | : Solitaire Publishing Inc |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780933143401 |
Download The UK to USA Dictionary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An A to Z ("Zed") of terms and expressions that differ in British English vs. American English. Dictionary format with UK terms and expressions and their US equivalents first, followed by US terms and expressions and the UK equivalents next. Also includes pages of rhyming slang, pronunciation differences, spelling differences, conversion charts and more. Great for travelers, Anglophiles, expatriates and anyone who has a love of languages!
Author | : Thomas Pyles |
Publisher | : New York : Random House |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Americanisms |
ISBN | : |
Download Words and Ways of American English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : George Philip Krapp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Americanisms |
ISBN | : |
Download The English Language in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Walt Wolfram |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2005-09-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1405112662 |
Download American English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a very readable, up-to-date description of language variation in American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences. contains new chapters on social and ethnic dialects, including a separate chapter on African American English and more comprehensive discussions of Latino, Native American, Cajun English, and other varieties, includes samples from a wider array of US regions features updated chapters as well as pedagogy such as new exercises, a phonetic symbols key, and a section on the notion of speech community accessibly written for the wide variety of students that enrol in a course on dialects, ranging from students with no background in linguistics to those who may wish to specialize in sociolinguistics
Author | : Kenneth G. Wilson |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 1996-08-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0585041482 |
Download The Columbia Guide to Standard American English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the most reliable and readable guide to effective writing for the Americans of today, Wilson answers questions of meaning, grammar, pronunciation, punctuation, and spelling in thousands of clear, concise entries. His guide is unique in presenting a systematic, comprehensive view of language as determined by context. Wilson provides a simple chart of contexts—from oratorical speech to intimate, from formal writing to informal—and explains in which contexts a particular usage is appropriate, and in which it is not. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English provides the answers to questions about American English the way no other guide can with: * an A–Z format for quick reference; * over five thousand entries, more than any other usage book; * sensible and useful advice based on the most current linguistic research; * a convenient chart of levels of speech and writing geared to context; * both descriptive and prescriptive entries for guidance; * guidelines for nonsexist usage; * individual entries for all language terms. A vibrant description of how our language is being spoken and written at the end of the twentieth century—and how we ourselves can use it most effectively—The Columbia Guide to Standard American English is the ideal handbook to language etiquette: friendly, sensible, and reliable.