Book Review: American English: Dialects and Variation

Carver, C. M. (1987). American regional dialects: A word geography. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Eckert, P. (1989). Jocks and burnouts: Social categories and identity in the high school. New York: Columbia University Teachers College.

Eckert, P. (2000). Linguistic variation as social practice. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell.

Eckert, P. , & McConnell-Ginet, S. (1992). Language and gender. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Kurath, H. (1949). A word geography of the eastern United States. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Kurath, H. , & McDavid, R. I., Jr. (1961). The pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Labov, W. (1990). The interaction of sex and social class in the course of linguistic change. Language Variation and Change, 2, 205-254.

Labov, W. , Ash, S. , & Boberg, C. (2005). Atlas of North American English. New York/Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Lakoff, R. (1973). Language and woman's place. Language in Society, 2, 45-80.

Nichols, P. (1983). Linguistic options and choices for Black women in the rural South. In B. Thorne , C. Kramarae ,& N. Henley (Eds.), Language, gender and society (pp. 54-68). Rowley, MA: Newbury House.

Tannen, D. (1990). You just don't understand: Women and men in conversation. New York: Ballantine.