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> Date: 25 Apr 1994 11:30:45 -0400 (EDT)

> From: Becky Howard <BHOWARD[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CENTER.COLGATE.EDU>

> Subject: Re: Articles, Papers or Chapters on American English

>

> Bill Kretzschmar, your suggestions for an American English syllabus are very

> helpful; I, too, have been struggling with the paucity of sources for a topic

> on which I teach a course. I'm not familiar with the Eckert anthology; can

> you give me more information? And of course I'm looking forward to using the

> new Glowka and Lance volume when next I teach the course.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Becky Howard

> Department of Interdisciplinary Writing

> Colgate University

> BHOWARD[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CENTER.COLGATE.EDU

>

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> Subj: RE: Articles, Papers or Chapters on American English

>

> I sympathise with John Kirk's request for neat information on American

> English.

>

> For my course called "American English" this quarter, I despaired of

> finding any single text that I thought would do the trick. What is still

> the best single little book on the subject is the rev. ed. of Carroll

> Reed's *Dialects of American English* (UMass Press, 1977). This book of

> course has many holes and substantially misses the development of Labovian

> sociolinguistics. Roger Shuy's *Discovering American Dialects* (NCTE, c.

> 1967) appears still to be in print but has the same problem only

> worse---Shuy's major work in sociolinguistics came after it. A somewhat

> larger book is Wolfram's *Dialects and American English* (Prentice Hall,

> 1992), which is excellent on just those subjects that Reed and Shuy are

> too early for, but misses all the historical coverage and doesn't offer

> lists of features that are associated with different locales. McDavid's

> edition of Mencken's *The American Language* also still has great

> merits. Marckwardt's *American English* (1st ed., Oxford, 1958) and

> Mathews' *The Beginnings of American English* (Chicago, 1931, repr.

> 1973), both important sources for me, are out of print.

>

> What I finally did was to make a "professor publisher packet" at the local

> copy shop, in which the centerpieces were McDavid's chapter in Nelson

> Francis's *Structure of American English* (Ronald, 1958) and Sumner Ives's

> "A Theory of Literary Dialect" (from Williamson and Burke, *A Various

> Language* (c. 1967), which is a revision of the *Tulane Studies in

> English* article). I supplemented these with Crevecouer's *Letters from

> an American Farmer*, and with several short pieces including Hartman's

> "Pronunciation Guide" from DARE vol. 1, Labov's "Three Dialects of

> English" (from the Eckert anthology), several articles on Black (and White

> Southern) English by the likes of Feagin, Fasold, and Bailey and Maynor.

> I also blushed and put in a couple of my own essays to update what McDavid

> wrote about dialects. The whole thing ended up costing the students

> about $20, which included $6 in royalties (as the copy shop reported).

>

> In short, there is a great need now for just the sort of work outlined by

> Kirk. I hope somebody writes one.

>

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> Bill Kretzschmar         Phone:  706-542-2246

> Dept. of English         FAX:   706-542-2181

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