Lexical Change and Variation in the Southeastern United States, 1930-1990

by Ellen Johnson

This book discusses words used in the Southeast and how they have changed
during the 20th century. It also describes how the lexicon varies according
to the speaker's age, race, education, sex, and place of residence
(urban versus rural; coastal versus piedmont versus mountain). Data collected
in the 1930s as part of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic
States project were compared with data collected in 1990 from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081730794X
• ISBN13: 9780817307943
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"