Ethnicity and American English
Type
Label
Ethnicity and American English
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Ethnicity and American English
Oclc number
993111945
resource.otherEventInformation
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2016
Runtime
30
Summary
America has always been a land of immigrants, and American English has been shaped since its earliest days by contact among immigrants from all over the British Isles and from around the world. Consider how the languages of the many immigrants who poured into America in the 19th and early 20th centuries gave rise to distinctive ethnic dialects of American English, and how they left their mark on American English more generally
Technique
live action
Contributor
Subject
Content
Distributor
Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor2
- Genre2
- Subject4
- Content1
- Distributor2
- Mapped to1