William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.
List of John Benjamins publications for which William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 0172-8865 | E-ISSN 1569-9730
Book series
2022 The emergence of new varieties of English in North America: Complex systems Earlier North American Englishes, Kytö, Merja and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 21–36 | Chapter
The emergence of English varieties in North America follows the predictions of complexity science. The complex systems model does not predict the small number of dialects that most scholars assume to be there because of their perception of variation. Instead, complexity science predicts that we… read more
2014 Emergence of “new varieties” in speech as a complex system The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. 142–159 | Article
The properties of complex systems engage nicely with the framework for “new varieties” of English suggested by Edgar Schneider, which highlights perceptual qualities and describes the progress of emergence of postcolonial varieties from early settlement to mature nation states. In order to explain… read more
2008 Public and academic understandings about language: The intellectual history of Ebonics English World-Wide 29:1, pp. 70–95 | Article
The Ebonics controversy revealed surprising public rejection of the ideas of academic linguists. The intellectual history of the situation provides a reasonable explanation. Linguists lack consensus themselves, while the public consensus includes inherent contradictions. Academic and public ideas… read more
1997 American English for the 21st century Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach, Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.), pp. 307–324 | Article
1996 Foundations of American English Focus on the USA, Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.), pp. 25–50 | Article
1996 Dimensions of Variation in American English Vocabulary English World-Wide 17:2, pp. 189–211 | Article
Vocabulary varies in more than just the single dimension of the list of words that appears in typical desk-size dictionaries. Attention to the multidimensional nature of lexical variation can contribute in important ways to our understanding of language, and more particularly to the situation of a… read more
1995 Review of Preston (1993): American dialect research Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 10:2, pp. 374–380 | Review
1994 Review of Romaine (1994): Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics English World-Wide 15:2, pp. 275–278 | Review