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Download full textFrazer, Timothy C.; Livingston-Webber, Joan – 1992
Students of English around the world are commonly taught according to one of two models, "British" English, and "American" English. Indeed, there is a persistent popular myth (present in many linguistics and second-language texts) that a single "Midwestern" variety of American English exists. The usage of the term…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Higher Education, Language Variation, Linguistics
School and Coll. Conference on English. – 1967
This document contains the papers presented at the 1966-67 annual midwinter meeting of the School and College Conference on English. The titles and authors are: "A Report on the Urban Language Study Project" by J. L. Dillard; "Creolized American English, Some Problems and Solutions" by Melvin J. Fox; "Recent Changes in…
Descriptors: Authors, Campuses, Computers, Conference Reports
PDF pending restorationMeyer, Peggy L. – 1976
This report is intended as a preliminary survey of the problems in the collection and sociological analysis of student slang. Dealing with the notion that every speaker handles a variety of registers and tends to choose among them in accordance with the particular social situation in which he finds himself, this study isolates some of the…
Descriptors: College Students, Dialect Studies, Higher Education, Language Research
