Chapter 8
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Examples and Resources
| Page # | Callout # | Link | Description |
| 170 | 8.1 | http://www.efnil.org | European Federation of National Institutions for Language. |
| 170 | 8.2 | http://www.rae.es | Real Academia Española. |
| 171 | 8.3 | http://www.accademiadellacrusca.it | Accademia della Crusca. |
| 171 | 8.4 | http://www.academie-francaise.fr/ | Académie française. |
| 173 | 8.5 | http://www.languagepolicy.net/archives/Adams.htm | Text of John Adams’ “Proposal for an American Language Academy.” |
| 176 | 8.6 | See link at 4.16 | Early American literature. |
| 182 | 8.7 | https://archive.org/details/nbchandbookofpro00bend | NBC Handbook of Pronunciation. |
| 182 | 8.8 | http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/radio/ | Radio America, regional varieties of American English. |
| 182 | 8.9 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W68VaOuY6ew | Development of Broadcast Standard US English. Interview with Bill Labov, from Do You Speak American. |
| 182 | 8.10 | a)http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/youtubeclip.php?clipid=14473&admin=32 b)http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/mediaplay.php?id=15349&admin=32 |
Speeches of President Franklin D. Roosevelt: a) 1933 Inaugural (video) b) 1937 Inaugural (audio only) |
| 182 | 8.11 | a) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH2DKZ-2m74 b) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNQAFm2OYXQ |
Katharine Hepburn videos: a) The Philadelphia Story, with Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart b) At the Oscars |
Flashcards
Suggested Reading
Standard American English
Curzan, A., & Adams, M. (2006). How English works: A linguistic introduction. New York, NY: Pearson Longman.
Fisher, J.H. (2001). British and American, continuity and divergence. In J. Algeo (Ed.) The Cambridge history of the English Language, vol. 6 (pp. 59-85). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Haugen, E. (1972). Dialect, language, nation. In J.B. Pride, & J. Holmes (Eds.) Sociolinguistics (pp. 97-111). Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Lippi-Green, R. (2012). English with an accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States (2nd ed.). London and New York, NY: Routledge.
Wolfram, W., & Schilling-Estes, N. (1998). American English: Dialects and variation. Malden, MA: Blackwell.