Speaking American: A History of English in the United States

by Richard W. Bailey

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When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue?

A wide-ranging account of American English, Richard Bailey's Speaking American investigates the history and continuing evolution of our language from the sixteenth century to the present. The book is organized...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:019517934X

ISBN13:9780195179347

Release Date:January 2012

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:232 Pages

Weight:1.06 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"

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