Do you speak American? : a companion to the PBS television series /
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New York :
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday,
2005.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The language wars
- Changing dialects: dingbatters versus hoi-toiders
- Toward a standard: putting the "R" in "American"
- This ain't your mama's south anymore
- Hispanic immigration: reconquest or assimilation?
- Bad-mouthing black English
- Language from a state of change
- Teaching computers to speak American.
