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    American dialect research

    Published 1993
    Subjects: “…English language Dialects United States.…”
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    Chicano English an ethnic contact dialect / by Penfield, Joyce

    Published 1985
    Subjects: “…English language Dialects Southwestern States.…”
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    American English / by Wolfram, Walt, 1941-, Schilling-Estes, Natalie

    Published 2016
    Table of Contents: “…Dialects, standards, and vernaculars -- Why dialects? …”
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    Revisiting racialized voice : African American ethos in language and literature / by Holmes, David Glen

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…The color of literacy : race, self, and the public ethos -- From reading race to race as a way of reading -- Chesnutt's reconstruction of race and dialect -- Of color and culture : Du Bois's evolving perspectives on race -- "Reading my words but not my mind" : Hurston's ironic voice -- The rhetoric of Black voice : implications for composition pedagogy.…”
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    The emergence of Black English text and commentary /

    Published 1991
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    Studies in Area Linguistics by Kurath, Hans, 1891-1992

    Published 1972
    Table of Contents: “…From sampling to publication -- From heterogloss to dialect boundary -- Sociocultural background of dialect areas in American English -- The adoption of foreign words in American English -- The historical relation of American English to British English -- The patterning of dialect areas -- Transplanted languages -- Diffusion -- The adaptation of foreign elements -- The social dimension in area linguistics.…”
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    Adjudicating climate change state, national, and international approaches /

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…The Inuit petition as a bridge beyond dialectics of climate change and indigenous peoples' rights /…”
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    States of exception everyday life and postcolonial identity / by Ganguly, Keya

    Published 2001
    Table of Contents: “…Inroduction: Gunga Din and other anomalies -- Writing the field -- The antinomies of everyday life -- Personal memory and the contradictions of selfhood -- Food and the habitus -- The dialectics of ethnic spectatorship.…”
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    Archives of American time literature and modernity in the nineteenth century / by Pratt, Lloyd, 1967-

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Written to the future -- Figures of print, orders of time, and the character of American modernity -- "A magnificent fragment" : dialects of time and the American historical romance -- Local time : southwestern humor and nineteenth-century literary regionalism -- The deprivation of time in African American life writing -- Epilogue: The spatial turn and the scale of freedom.…”
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    Reagan at Westminster foreshadowing the end of the Cold War / by Rowland, Robert C., 1954-

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…Ronald Reagan's address to members of the British Parliament, June 8, 1982 -- Introduction -- Ronald Reagan and the evolution of Cold War rhetoric and policies -- The drafting of the Westminster address -- Democracy is not a fragile flower: ultimate definition and dialectical engagement at Westminster -- Reaction to the address -- The importance of Reagan at Westminster: democracy still needs cultivating.…”
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    Contesting the past, reconstructing the nation American literature and culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 / by Railton, Ben, 1977-

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…"He wouldn't ever dared to talk such talk in his life before" : dialect slavery, and the race question -- "If we had known how to write, we would have put all these things down and they would not have been forgotten" : silenced voices, forgotten, histories, and the Indian question -- "That's the worst of being a woman. …”
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    Spanish in the United States linguistic contact and diversity /

    Published 1993
    Table of Contents: “…Spanish / Ricardo Otheguy -- The dialectics of Spanish language loyalty and maintenance on the US-Mexico border / Margarita Hidalgo -- Spanish clitics in a contact situation / Manuel J. …”
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    Natural born celebrities serial killers in American culture / by Schmid, David (David Frank)

    Published 2005
    Table of Contents: “…Holmes -- Defining the enemy within : the FBI and serial murder -- Natural born celebrities : serial killers and the Hollywood star system -- Out of this world : aliens, devils, and serial killers in television crime drama -- Next door monsters : the dialectic of normality and monstrosity in true-crime narratives -- The unbearable straightness of violence : queering serial murder in true crime.…”
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