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9780156032889

Do You Speak American?

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  • ISBN13:

    9780156032889

  • ISBN10:

    0156032880

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-11-14
  • Publisher: Mariner Books

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Summary

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 spoken American English, MacNeil and Cran address highly emotional anxieties and assumptions about our language-and offer some unpredictable responses. With insight and wit, MacNeil and Cran bring us a compelling follow-up to The Story of English that is at once a celebration and a potent study of our singular language.

Author Biography

ROBERT MacNEIL and WILLIAM CRAN are the coauthors of The Story of English (with Robert McCrum). The coanchor of PBS's The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour until his retirement in 1995, Robert MacNeil is also the author of two volumes of memoir and three novels, including, most recently, Breaking News. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. 1
The Language Warsp. 9
Changing Dialects: Dingbatters Versus Hoi-Toidersp. 31
Toward a Standard: Putting the "R" in "American"p. 49
This Ain't Your Mama's South Anymorep. 67
Hispanic Immigration: Reconquest or Assimilation?p. 89
Bad-mouthing Black Englishp. 115
Language from a State of Changep. 151
Teaching Computers to Speak Americanp. 179
Acknowledgmentsp. 203
Notesp. 205
Linguists Consultedp. 211
Bibliographyp. 213
Indexp. 217
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