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Overview
Speech folklore is like an audible fingerprint, revealing a speaker's regional identity. This form of folklore shows up everywhere, including: the names of people and places. politics. religion. jokes. streetcalls, the earliest roots of advertising. adolescent slang. Across the United States and Canada, the speech of ordinary people varies from region to region -- and yet our common speech is also what unites us. Through speech we communicate both our differences and our similarities; we claim and shape the world around us. Read Folk Speech and you'll discover the power of speech.Examines culturally and geographically derived speech patterns, dialects, vocabulary, syntax, and grammar found throughout the regions of North America.
Synopsis
Speech folklore is like an audible fingerprint, revealing a speaker's regional identity. This form of folklore shows up everywhere, including: the names of people and places. politics. religion. jokes. streetcalls, the earliest roots of advertising. adolescent slang. Across the United States and Canada, the speech of ordinary people varies from region to region -- and yet our common speech is also what unites us. Through speech we communicate both our differences and our similarities; we claim and shape the world around us. Read Folk Speech and you'll discover the power of speech.