9780156032889-0156032880-Do You Speak American?

Do You Speak American?

ISBN-13: 9780156032889
ISBN-10: 0156032880
Edition: First Edition
Author: William Cran, Robert MacNeil
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback 228 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780156032889
ISBN-10: 0156032880
Edition: First Edition
Author: William Cran, Robert MacNeil
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback 228 pages

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Do You Speak American? (ISBN-13: 9780156032889 and ISBN-10: 0156032880), written by authors William Cran, Robert MacNeil, was published by Harper Paperbacks in 2005. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Foreign Language Study & Reference (Communication, Words, Language & Grammar , Linguistics, Phonetics & Phonics, Speech, Vocabulary, Slang & Word Lists, Communication & Media Studies, Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Do You Speak American? (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Foreign Language Study & Reference books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.05.

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Is the growing influence of Spanish threatening to displace English in the United States? Are America's grammatical standards in serious decline? Has the media saturation of our culture homogenized our speech?

These and other questions catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran, coauthors of the language classic The Story of English, on a journey that took them around the country in search of answers. Do You Speak American?, the companion volume to a PBS special, is the tale of the surprising discoveries they made while interviewing a host of native speakers and observing everyday verbal interactions across the country. Examining the histories and controversies surrounding both written and spoken American English, MacNeil and Cran address highly emotional anxieties and assumptions about our language-and offer some unpredictable responses.

With insight and wit, MacNeil and Cran bring us a compelling follow-up to The Story of English that is at once a celebration and a potent study of our singular language.

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