Thursday, December 1, 2011

Research Project ELL

Topic: Monophthongization of Cities across America
 Summary: Will explain the individualization of cities across the country and how they identify themselves with a personal modification to the common language. Geographical, social/cultural and development issues to be analyzed. Common cities will include, NYC, San Francisco, Cleveland, Atlanta dialects and rivalry between any of these cities political or socially.
Sources, more to be added or excluded.
Durfee, Harold A. "The Death Of Man." Philosophy Today 47.2 (2003): 191-204. Academic Search Complete.
B. Flexner; Stuart B. Flexner is editor in chief of the Random House, Dictionaries, ''I Hear America Talking'' author of The Dictionary of American Slang, and America.'' ''Listening to. "One Language, Highly Divisible." New York Times Book Review (1985): 1. Academic Search Complete.
KREBS MICHELLE, Auto Makers Practice a New York Accent. New York Times. March 30, 1997
Johnstone, Barbara, and Scott F. Kiesling. "Indexicality And Experience: Exploring The Meanings Of /Aw/-Monophthongization In Pittsburgh." Journal Of Sociolinguistics 12.1 (2008): 5-33. Academic Search Complete.

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