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Top 10 Best "African American Vernacular English" Books

#10

The New Oxford American Dictionary

Erin McKean

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The American Heritage Dictionaries, 4th Edition, OFFICE Edition

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African American Vernacular English

The American Heritage Dictionaries, 4th Edition, OFFICE Edition

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition on CD-ROM offers all the features of its print counterpart and more. The Fourth Edition includes over 10,000 new words and senses, full etymologies, a revised Appendix of Indo-European Roots, and an all-new Appendix of Semitic Roots. It also includes an expansive note program: over 450 new and revised Usage Notes, 100 Regional Notes, and a new feature, Our Living Language Notes. The new Fourth Edition on CD combines the innovation of the print dictionary with the ease and accessibility of an electronic format. Special features include: Over 1,000 color photographs, illustrations, and maps from the print edition Nearly 70,000 spoken pronunciations Definitions and usage instantly accessible by highlighting and right-clicking on words in any Microsoft Office application A simple search tool for finding the word you want, even if you don't know how to spell it Separately searchable indexes of all images and note features Whatever your experience as a computer user may be, The American Heritage® Dicti...

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#9

Performing the Word

Fahamisha Patricia Brown

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#8

Improve Your English

English in the Workplace (DVD w/ Book)

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#7

Improve Your English

English in Everyday Life (DVD w/ Book)

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#6

African American Vernacular English

John Russell Rickford

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#5

The Development of African American English (Language in Society)

Walt Wolfram
Erik Thomas

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#4

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth…

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#3

African American English

Lisa J. Green

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#2

Let's Talk Turkey

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American English

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

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