The Language of St. Louis, Missouri
Variation in the Gateway City
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 31. December 1986
Book
Hardback
VIII, 272 pages
978-0-8204-0324-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Language of St. Louis presents the findings of a dialectological and sociolinguistic survey of the phonology, morphology and syntax, and lexicon of one of the leading urban centers in the midwestern United States. Thomas Murray's study is based on exhaustive data: he provides all the raw scores from all the demographic groups of informants for each linguistic feature investigated. Murray then compares these data with similar studies to allow the language of St. Louis to be understood in relation to dialects spoken on the East Coast, in the Central Midwest, and in the rest of Missouri. He also addresses the question of why the language of St. Louis is as it is, and offers evidence that the answer may lie in St. Louisans' collective psychosocial attitude toward talking like a «hoosier.»
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The Author: April Wilson has been offering German reading courses to graduate students in the University of Chicago community since 1972. Ms. Wilson learned German as a high school exchange student to West Berlin and continued her studies at Barnard College and the University of California (Irvine). She also received a degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her courses have had an excellent reputation for providing students with the essentials of German grammar, quickly.
Content
Contents: Introductory and methodological preliminaries - Data-oriented analyses of the phonology, morphology and syntax, and lexicon of St. Louis - comparison of St. Louis dialect to other U.S. dialects - Why St. Louisans talk the way they do.