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Language in the USA Ferguson Heath Paperback Cambridge University Press

Language in the USA

Language in the USA is a volume of specially commissioned studies on the language situation in America.

Charles A. Ferguson (Edited by), Shirley Brice Heath (Edited by)

9780521298346, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 August 1981

632 pages

22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm, 0.92 kg

Language in the USA is a volume of specially commissioned studies on the language situation in America, how it came to be the way it is, and the forces of changes within it. The USA has its own unique pattern of languages: American English, the principal language, different in structure and use from other kinds of English in the world; two hundred American Indian languages, some of them flourishing as never before; Spanish, spoken in North America before English and now the second most important language in the country; a cost of immigrant languages, each with a different history of accommodation to the American scene. The book explains the place of the]

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Language in the USA

Language in the USA is a volume of specially commissioned studies on the language situation in America.

Charles A. Ferguson (Edited by), Shirley Brice Heath (Edited by)

9780521298346, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 August 1981

632 pages

22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm, 0.92 kg

Language in the USA is a volume of specially commissioned studies on the language situation in America, how it came to be the way it is, and the forces of changes within it. The USA has its own unique pattern of languages: American English, the principal language, different in structure and use from other kinds of English in the world; two hundred American Indian languages, some of them flourishing as never before; Spanish, spoken in North America before English and now the second most important language in the country; a cost of immigrant languages, each with a different history of accommodation to the American scene. The book explains the place of the]

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Language in the USA

Language in the USA is a volume of specially commissioned studies on the language situation in America.

Charles A. Ferguson (Edited by), Shirley Brice Heath (Edited by)

9780521298346, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 August 1981

632 pages

22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm, 0.92 kg

Language in the USA is a volume of specially commissioned studies on the language situation in America, how it came to be the way it is, and the forces of changes within it. The USA has its own unique pattern of languages: American English, the principal language, different in structure and use from other kinds of English in the world; two hundred American Indian languages, some of them flourishing as never before; Spanish, spoken in North America before English and now the second most important language in the country; a cost of immigrant languages, each with a different history of accommodation to the American scene. The book explains the place of the]

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