DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN REGIONAL ENGLISH

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Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume VI: Contrastive Maps, Index to Entry Labels, Questionnaire, and Fieldwork Data

Editor-in-chief Joan Houston Hall

With Luanne von Schneidemesser

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HARDCOVER

$130.00 • £113.95 • €118.95

ISBN 9780674066533

Publication Date: 01/08/2013

1080 pages

8-1/2 x 11 inches

1702 maps

Dictionary of American Regional English

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Joan Houston Hall is Distinguished Scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She joined the DARE staff in 1975, became Associate Editor in 1979, and was named Chief Editor in 2000.

Read an Emory Magazine profile of Hall »

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For a word a day, follow DARE on Twitter
In the New Yorker, read about the autumn 2017 sunsetting of the DARE research project due to lack of funding—and what lies ahead for American dialect studies
In the Huffington Post, read a summer 2017 update on the shaky future of DARE
At Time Magazine, learn about the new DARE effort to update its data for the new millenium via an online survey
Watch Joan Houston Hall discuss the completion of DARE on Milwaukee Public Television’s I Remember and Madison’s WKOW, and discover more examples of American regional English in a piece on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer
Listen to Hall on the Lapham’s Quarterly podcast, WPR’s The Larry Meiller Show, VOA’s Words and Their Stories and Special English, WBUR’s Here & Now, KPCC’s Air Talk, WAMU’s The Diane Rehm Show, KIRO’s Seattle’s Morning News, KQED’s Forum with Michael Krasny, WNYC’s The Takeaway, CBC Radio’s As It Happens, and WPR’s The Kathleen Dunn Show
Visit the University of Wisconsin’s DARE page, where you can listen to audio samples of regional dialects, see a slideshow of historic photos from the project, and take an interactive quiz
Visit the Harvard University Press DARE page for more links and resources

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