Speaking American: A History of English in the United States

by Richard W. Bailey

Book Overview

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"