Readings and texts for teaching American Dialects

[Laurence Horn]

On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Michael Newman wrote:

> Easy:   Wolfram and Schilling-Estes American English.
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When I taught "Varieties of English" with a colleague two years ago, we used W&S-E (2d ed.) as the primary text and _How We Talk_ as the secondary (supplemented with various papers along the way). That was for a freshman seminar rather than a graduate course, but if students have no specific background in dialectology, I'd probably make the same choice.

LH

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> Michael Newman
> Associate Professor of Linguistics
> Queens College/CUNY
> michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu
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> On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:13 AM, Martinez-Gibson, Elizabeth A wrote:
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>> Dear colleagues,
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>> In the spring, I will be teaching a course in American English Dialects for our Masters in Education Program. I taught this course at the undergraduate level a number of years ago and I used Allan Metcalf's book How We Talk. Since this is a graduate program, I need more readings and materials and since it has been some time since I've worked with English dialects, I was hoping some of you might be able to give me some suggestions.
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>> Thanks,
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>> Liz
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>> Elizabeth A. Martínez-Gibson, Professor of Spanish &
>> Director of the Interdisciplinary Linguistics Minor
>> College of Charleston
>> Dept. of Hispanic Studies-JC Long 141
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>> 843-953-8066
>> martineze at cofc.edu
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