Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English (eBook)

Michael B. Montgomery, Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
1296 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-6255-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English is a revised and expanded edition of the Weatherford Awardwinning Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, published in 2005 and known in Appalachian studies circles as the most comprehensive reference work dedicated to Appalachian vernacular and linguistic practice. Editors Michael B. Montgomery and Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller document the variety of English used in parts of eight states, ranging from West Virginia to Georgiaan expansion of the first edition's geography, which was limited primarily to North Carolina and Tennesseeand include over 10,000 entries drawn from over 2,200 sources. The entries include approximately 35,000 citations to provide the reader with historical context, meaning, and usage. Around 1,600 of those examples are from letters written by Civil War soldiers and their family members, and another 4,000 are taken from regional oral history recordings. Decades in the making, the Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English surpasses the original by thousands of entries. There is no work of this magnitude available that so completely illustrates the rich language of the Smoky Mountains and Southern Appalachia.

Autor

Michael B. Montgomery (1950–2019) was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Linguistics at the University of South Carolina. Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller is a data annotator, translator, and editor in Asheville, North Carolina.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.6.2021
• Vorwort: Joan Houston Hall
• Zusatzinfo: 12 halftones, 8 tables, notes, bibl.
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 220 x 220 mm
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Sprach- und Wörterbuch / Deutsch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: american english • Appalachia • Appalachian culture • Appalachian English • appalachian history • Appalachian Mountains • Appalachian traditions • east tennessee • endangered language varieties • etymology • Georgia History • grammar of Appalachian English • Great Smoky Mountains • Great Smoky Mountains National Park • historical American English • historical American linguistics • Historical Linguistics • Jennifer Heinmiller • Joseph Hall • Linguistics • Michael B. Montgomery • North Carolina history • regional linguistics • south carolina history • Southern Culture • southern history • southern traditions • Tennessee History • Virginia History • western north carolina • west Virginia history
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-6255-8 / 1469662558
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-6255-8 / 9781469662558