American Regionalisms,
Ethnic and Social Dialects--
General Studies:
A Citation List
Compiled by
Martin Kich
English Department
Wright State University-Lake Campus
Allen, Harold B., and Michael D. Linn, eds. Dialect and Language Variation. Orlando, FL: Academic, 1986.
Allen, Harold B., and Gary Underwood, eds. Readings in American Dialectology. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1971.
Alvarez, Louis, and Andrew Kolker. American Tongues. [Videorecording] New York: Center for New American Media, 1986.
Bertram, Anne, and Richard A. Spears. NTC's Dictionary of Folksy, Regional, and Rural Sayings. Lincolnwood, IL: NTC, 1995.
Bloch, B. "Interviewing for the Linguistic Atlas." American Speech 10(Feb. 1935): 3-9.
Books Containing American Local Dialects: A Series of Lists Compiled by the St. Louis Public Library. St. Louis: St. Louis Public Library, 1914.
Brandes, Paul D., and Jeutonne Brewer. Dialect Clash in America: Issues and Answers. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1977.
Brewer, Jeutonne, and Paul Dickerson Brandes, eds. Dialect Clash in America: Issues and Answers. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1976.
Bryen, Diane N., Cheryl Hartman, and Pearl Tait. Variant English: An Introduction to Language Variation. Columbus, OH: Merrill, 1978.
Burkett, Eva M. American English Dialects in Literature. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1978.
Burling, Robbins. English in Black and White. New York: Holt, 1973.
Carver, Craig M. American Regional Dialects: A Word Geography. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1987.
Cassidy, Frederic G. "American Regionalisms in the Classroom." English Journal 57(Mar. 1968): 375-79+.
--. "Geographical Variation of English in the United States." English as a World Language. Eds. R.W. Bailey and M. Gorlach. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982. 177-209.
--. A Method for Collecting Dialect. Tuscaloosa, AL: American Dialect Society, 1953.
Cassidy, Frederic G., et al. Dictionary of American Regional English. Vol. 1. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1985.
--. Dictionary of American Regional English. Vol. 2. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 1991.
Christian, Donna. Vernacular Dialects
Conklin, Nancy Faires, and Margaret A. Lourie. A Host of Tingues: Language Communities in the United States. New York: Free, 1983.
Criswell, E. H. Report of the Conference on Planning for the Dictionary of the American Dialect Society. Tulsa, OK: U of Tulsa, 1950.
Crotty, Jim. How to Talk American: A Guide to Our Native Tongues. Boston: Houghton, 1997.
Daniels, Harvey A., ed. Not Only English: Affirming America's Multilingual Heritage. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1990.
Davis, A.L. American Dialects for English Teachers. Urbana, IL: Illinois State-wide Curriculum Study Center in the Preparation of Secondary School English Teachers, 1969.
---, ed. On the Dialects of Children. Champaign, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1968.
Dillard, J.L., ed. Perspectives on American English. The Hague: Mouton, 1980.
The Dime Burlesque Speaker: The Choicest of Humor in Yankee, 'Dutch-English,' Irish, Negro, Wild West Vernacular, and the Serio-Comic, by the Most Noted Americans Wits, Humorists, and Funny Fellows. New York: Beadle and Adams, 1886.
Drake, James A. "The Effect of Urbanization on Regional Vocabulary." American Speech 36(1961): 17-33.
Gibson, M. J. "America's First Lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, Jr., 1757-1836 Part II." American Speech 12(Feb. 1937): 19-30.
Golden, Ruth I. Instructional Record for Changing Regional Speech Patterns. [Audio Recording] [No City], FL: Folkways Records, 1964.
Greet, W. Cabell. "A Standard American Language?" New Republic 25 May 1938: 68-70.
Griffin, D.M. "Dialects and Democracy: Need for a Dialectology Unit." English Journal 59(Apr. 1970): 551-58.
Griffith, Jerry, and L.E. Miner, eds. Lincolnland Conference on Dialectology. Tuscaloosa, AL: American Dialect Society, 1970.
Gumperz, John J., and Jenny Cook-Gumperz. "Ethnic Differences in Communicative Style." Language in the U.S.A. Eds. Charles A. Ferguson and Shirley B. Heath. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1981. 430-45.
Hendrickson, Robert. American Talk: The Words and Ways of American Dialects. New York: Viking Penguin, 1986.
--. The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms. New York: Facts on File, 2000.
Herman, Lewis Helmar, and Marguerite Shalett Herman. American Dialects: A Manual for Actors, Directors, and Writers. New York: Theater Arts, 1959.
Hills, E. C. "Linguistic Substrata of American English." American Speech 4(Aug. 1929): 431-433.
Horwill, H. W. "The American Language." London Spectator 13 Sep. 1935: 394.
Hunter, Aria D. "Bibliography: Dialectical Studies." The Cue of Theta Alpha Phi 15(Spring 1936): 25-27.
An Index by Region, Usage, and Etymology to the Dictionary of American Regional English, Volumes I and II. Tuscaloosa, AL: American Dialect Society, 1993.
An Index by Region, Usage, and Etymology to the Dictionary of American Regional English, Volumes III. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1993.
Ives, Sumner. "A Theory of Literary Dialect." Tulane Studies in English 2(1950): 137-82.
Kimball, C.P. "Medicine and Dialects." Annals of Internal Medicine 74(1971): 137-39.
Kurath, Hans. The Investigation of Urban Speech. Tuscaloosa, AL: American Dialect Society, 1969.
---. "Progress of the Linguistic Atlas." Dialect Notes 6(1938): 625-626.
--. Studies in Area Linguistics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1972.
Labov, William. A Study of Non-Standard English. Washington, DC: ERIC Clearinghouse for Linguistics, 1969.
Mabie, Janet. "As She Is Spoke." Christian Science Monitor 22 Jan. 1936: 48.
Malmstrom, Jean, and Annabel Ashley. Dialects U.S.A. Champaign, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1963.
Malone, Kemp. "John David on American English." American Speech 4(1929): 473-476.
McDavid, Raven I., Jr. "American English Dialects." The Structure of American English. Ed. W.N. Francis. New York: Ronald, 1958.
--. "A Checklist of Significant Features for Discriminating Social Dialects." American Dialects for English Teachers. USOE Project HE-145, SS-12-32-67. Ed. Alva L. Davis. Urbana, IL: Illinois Statewide Curriculum Studies Center in the Preparation of Secondary School English Teachers, 1969. 62-66.
---. Dialect Labels in the Merriam Third. Tuscaloosa, AL: American Dialect Society, 1969.
--. Dialects in Culture: Essays in General Dialectology. Tuscaloosa, AL: American Dialect Society, 1979.
--. Varieties of American English Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1979.
Menner, Robert J. "Linguistic Geography and the American Atlas." American Speech 8(Oct. 1933): 3-7.
---. "Two Early Comments on American Dialects." American Speech 13(Feb. 1938): 8-12.
Metcalf, Allan. How We Talk: American Regional English Today. Boston: Houghton, 2000.
Muri, John Theofield. Americans Speaking. [Audio Recording] Champaign, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1967.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Geographic Distribution, Nativity, and Age Distribution of Language Minorities in the United States, Spring 1976. Bulletin, 22 Aug. 1978, NCES 78-134, ERIC/CAL.
Needed Research in American English. Tuscaloosa, AL: American Dialect Society, 1984.
Nichols, Patricia C. "Creoles of the U.S.A." Language in the U.S.A. Eds. Charles A. Ferguson and Shirley B. Heath. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1981. 69-91.
"Parlez-Vous Cityese? And If So, Which?" Senior Scholastic 22 Nov. 1968: 13.
Pederson, Lee. "An Approach to Urban Word Geography." American Speech 46(1971): 73-86.
Phonetic Transcriptions from American Speech. New York: Columbia UP, 1939.
Pound, Louise. The American Dialect Society. Tuscaloosa, AL: American Dialect Society, 1952.
A Preliminary Bibliography of American English Dialects. Washington, DC: ERIC Clearinghouse for Linguistics, Center for Applied Linguistics, 1969.
Preston, Dennis R., et al, eds. American Dialect Research. Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1993.
Read, Allen Walker. "American Projects for an Academy to Regulate Speech." PMLA 51(Dec. 1936): 1141-1180.
Reed, Carroll E. Dialects of American English. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 1977.
Report on the Conference on Planning for the Dictionary of the American Dialect Society. Greenboro, NC: American Dialect Society, 1949.
Report on the Second Conference on Planning for the Dictionary of the American Dialect Society. Tulsa, OK: American Dialect Society, 1950.
Robertson, Stuart. "Notes on the American Language." American Speech 12(Oct. 1937): 185-189.
Shopen, Timothy, and Joseph M. Williams. Standards and Dialects in English. Cambridge, MA: Winthrop, 1980.
Shores, David L., ed. Contemporary English: Change and Variation. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1972.
Shuy, Roger W. Discovering American Dialects. Champaign, IL: NCTE, 1967.
Studies in English to Speakers of Other Languages, and Standard English to Speakers of Non-Standard Dialect. Oneonta, NY: New York State English Council, 1971.
Thompson, Carolyn M. A Comparative Study of Standard and Nonstndard English Syntactic Features in the Language of Lower Socioeconomic Children. 1981.
Thornton, R. H. "An American Glossary." Dialect Notes 6(Dec. 1935): 489-512.
Van Patten, N. "Organization of Source Material for the Study of American English and American Dialects." American Speech 4Aug. 1929): 425-429.
Wentworth, Harold. American Dialect Dictionary. New York: Crowell, 1944.
Williams, Ronald, and Richard Ham, eds. Speech and Language of the Urban and Rural Poor: Papers Presented at the Summer Institute on Speech and Language of the Urban and Rural Poor, July 14-18, 1969, Held at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. Athens, OH: Ohio UP, 1970.
Williams, Ronald, and Walt Wolfram. Social Dialects: Differences vs. Disorders. Rockville, MD: American Speech and Hearing Assoc., 1977.
Williamson, Juanita, and Virginia Burke, eds. A Various Language. New York: Holt, 1971.
Wilson, George Pickett. Instructions to Collectors of Dialects. Tuscaloosa, AL: American Dialect Society, 1944.
Wolfram, Walt. Dialects and American English. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice, 1991.
--. "Varieties of American English." Language in the U.S.A. Eds. Charles A. Ferguson and Shirley B. Heath. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1981. 44-68.
Wolfram, Walt, Carolyn Temple Adger, and Donna Christian. Dialects and Schools in Communities. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1999.
Wolfram, Walt, and Donna Christian. Dialects and Education: Issues and Answers. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice, 1989.
Wolfram, Walt, and Ralph W. Fasold. The Study of Social Dialects in American English. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice, 1974.
Wolfram, Walt, and Natalie Schilling-Estes. American English: Dialects and Variation. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998.
Wolfram, Walt, and Ralph W. Fasold. Social Dialects in American English. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice, 1974.
"Words, Words, Words." Digest 1(6 Nov. 1937): 5.