Alabama Voices - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alabama Voices write by Alabama Writer's Forum. This book was released on 1995. Alabama Voices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Address of Edward A. O'Neal
Address of Edward A. O'Neal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Address of Edward A. O'Neal write by Voices of Alabama (Radio Program). This book was released on 1949. Address of Edward A. O'Neal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
They Had No Voice
They Had No Voice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook They Had No Voice write by Denny Abbott. This book was released on 2013-01-01. They Had No Voice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Denny Abbott first encountered the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children at Mt. Meigs as a twenty-one-year-old probation officer for the Montgomery County Family Court. He would become so concerned about conditions for black juvenile offenders there--including hard labor, beatings, and rape--that he took the State of Alabama to court to win reforms. With the help of the U.S. Justice Department, Abbott won a resounding victory that brought change, although three years later he had to sue the state again. In They Had No Voice, Abbott details these battles and how his actions cost him his job and made him a pariah in his hometown, but resulted in better lives for Alabama's children. Abbott also tells of his later career as the first national director of the Adam Walsh Child Resource Center, where he helped focus attention on missing and exploited children and became widely recognized as an expert on children's issues.
By Voices Vol. 1
By Voices Vol. 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook By Voices Vol. 1 write by . This book was released on 2014. By Voices Vol. 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Speaking of Alabama
Speaking of Alabama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speaking of Alabama write by Thomas E. Nunnally. This book was released on 2018-12-18. Speaking of Alabama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Informative and entertaining essays on the accents, dialects, and speech patterns particular to Alabama Thomas E. Nunnally’s fascinating volume presents essays by linguists who examine with affection and curiosity the speech varieties occurring both past and present across Alabama. Taken together, the accounts in this volume offer an engaging view of the major features that characterize Alabama’s unique brand of southern English. Written in an accessible manner for general readers and scholars alike, Speaking of Alabama includes such subjects as the special linguistic features of the Southern drawl, the “phonetic divide” between north and south Alabama, “code-switching” by African American speakers in Alabama, pejorative attitudes by Alabama speakers toward their own native speech, the influence of foreign languages on Alabama speech to the vibrant history and continuing influence of non-English languages in the state, as well as ongoing changes in Alabama’s dialects. Adding to these studies is a foreword by Walt Wolfram and an afterword by Michael B. Montgomery, both renowned experts in southern English, which place both the methodologies and the findings of the volume into their larger contexts and point researchers to needed work ahead in Alabama, the South, and beyond. The volume also contains a number of useful appendices, including a guide to the sounds of Southern English, a glossary of linguistic terms, and online sources for further study. Language, as presented in this collection, is never abstract but always examined in the context of its speakers’ day-to-day lives, the driving force for their communication needs and choices. Whether specialist or general reader, Alabamian or non-Alabamian, all readers will come away from these accounts with a deepened understanding of how language functions between individuals, within communities, and across regions, and will gain a new respect for the driving forces behind language variation and language change.
