Ain’thology the History and Life of a Taboo Word 1st Edition by Patricia Donaher, Seth Katz ISBN 1443878723 9781443878722

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ISBN 10: 1443878723

ISBN 13: 9781443878722 

Author: Patricia Donaher, Seth Katz 

The word ain’t is used by speakers of all dialects and sociolects of English. Nonetheless, language critics view ain’t as marking speakers as “lazy” or “stupid”; and the educated assume ain’t is on its deathbed, used only in clichés. Everyone has an opinion about ain’t. Even the grammar-checker in Microsoft Word flags every ain’t with a red underscore. But why? Over the past 100 years, only a few articles and sections of books have reviewed the history of ain’t or discussed it in dialect contexts. This first book-length collection specifically dedicated to this shibboleth provides a multifaceted analysis of ain’t in the history and grammar of English; in English speech, writing, television, comics and other media; and in relation to the minds, attitudes, and usage of speakers and writers of English from a range of regions, ethnicities, social classes, and dialect communities. Most articles in the collection are accessible for the average educated speaker, while others are directed primarily at specialists in linguistic study – but with helpful explanations and footnotes to make these articles more approachable for the layperson. This collection of articles on ain’t thus provides a broad audience with a rich understanding and appreciation of the history and life of this taboo word.

Table of contents:

I. AUTHORITY
Chapter One: Ain’t in the Dictionary
Chapter Two: Ain’t Online: Internet-Based Prescriptive and Descriptive Views on the Ultimate Taboo Word
Chapter Three: Historical Development and Aspectual Nuances of Ain’t-Periphrases

II. AUTHENTICITY
Chapter Four: Children’s Production of Ain’t
Chapter Five: The Syntax of Ain’t
Chapter Six: “You ain’t seen nothing yet”: The Distribution of Ain’t in The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies
Chapter Seven: The Interplay of Morphological, Phonological, and Social Constraints for Ain’t in Appalachia

III. AFFILIATION
Chapter Eight: ¿Cómo Se Dice Ain’t in Spanish? Ain’t Use in Latino Comics
Chapter Nine: Language Change in a Post-Creole, British Contact Setting: Non-Standard Ain’t Negation
Chapter Ten: “It ain’t over ’til it’s over”; and, It Certainly Ain’t Over Yet: Ain’t in the Lexicon of Baseball

IV. ACCOMMODATION
Chapter Eleven: “Ain’t no translation good enough?”: A Comparison of the Use of Ain’t in English Original and Translated Literary Texts
Chapter Twelve: Ain’t No Bones About It: Dialect Discrimination in Primetime
Chapter Thirteen: Literary Ain’t: A Survey Based on the Examples in The Oxford English Dictionary

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