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American Speech

American Speech
DisciplineLinguistics
LanguageEnglish
Edited byThomas C Purnell
Publication details
History1925–present
Publisher
FrequencyQuarterly
0.800 (2009)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Am. Speech
Indexing
ISSN0003-1283 (print)
1527-2133 (web)
LCCN27021844
OCLC no.644323257
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American Speech is a quarterly academic journal of the American Dialect Society, established in 1925 and currently published by Duke University Press. It focuses primarily on the English language used in the Western Hemisphere, but also publishes contributions on other varieties of English, outside influences on the language, and linguistic theory.[1]

The current editor is Thomas Purnell (University of Wisconsin–Madison).

The Chronicle of Higher Education's Lingua Franca considers it a "consistently reliable peer-reviewed source of information" and states that "though it is scholarly and research based, there’s a surprising amount of information that is intelligible to anyone, even without special training in linguistics."[2]

  1. ^ American Speech, Duke University Press. Accessed February 21, 2008.
  2. ^ Metcalfe, Allan (September 4, 2018). "How Americans speak: the facts". Chronicle of Higher Education.