This book provides a historiographic study of the distinction between language and dialect, a puzzle which has long fascinated linguists and laypeople alike. It

This anthology emphasizes dialects of American English and language variation in America. The editors present original essays by today's leading investigators,

Traditional dialects have been encroached upon by the increasing mobility of their speakers and by the onslaught of national languages in education and mass med

The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect