Introductory Textbooks

[Patti J. Kurtz]

For me, too, please-- I've got a brand new course going in spring on
American Dialects.

Patti Kurtz
Minot State University

dstrasheim at HASTINGS.EDU wrote:

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>Hi.  I'm a newcomer to the list, and I hope it's okay to ask questions
>about textbooks in the field.  I teach an introductory January Term
>course called American English Dialects, an undergraduate,
>lower-division, no-prerequisite course.  My current text is Wolfram and
>Schilling-Estes, American English:  Dialects and Variation, which I like
>a great deal, except that some of my beginners in linguistics find it
>difficult reading in spots.  Can members of the list suggest other
>introductory textbooks that I might consider for such a course?
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>Thank you.
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>Dwayne Strasheim, Ph.D.
>Professor of English & Linguistics
>Dean Emeritus
>Hastings College
>710 North Turner Avenue
>Hastings, NE  68901-7621
>Phone:  402-461-7736
>dstrasheim at hastings.edu
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