Do You Speak American?

Name: Do You Speak American?
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ISBN: 9780156032889

ISBN-10: 0156032880

ISBN-13: 9780156032889

Edition: 2005

Authors: Robert MacNeil, William Cran, Louise Quayle

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Is the growing influence of Spanish threatening to displace English in the United States? Are America's grammatical standards in serious decline? Has the media saturation of our culture homogenized our speech? These and other questions catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran, coauthors of the language classic The Story of English, on a journey that took them around the country in search of answers. Do You Speak American?, the companion volume to a PBS special, is the tale of the surprising discoveries they made while interviewing a host of native speakers and observing everyday verbal interactions across the country. Examining the histories and controversies surrounding both written and…

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List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/14/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.01" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

ROBERT MacNEIL was the coanchor of PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour until his retirement in 1995. He has written two volumes of memoirs and three novels. MacNeil grew up in Nova Scotia, the setting for his bestselling memoir Wordstruck. He now divides his time between Halifax and New York City.

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Introduction



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


Acknowledgments


Notes


Linguists Consulted


Bibliography


Index