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ICE-USA

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American English, often called 'US English' or the 'American' language, is spoken throughout the United States. It is the main language in governmental administration, education, business, media and the legal system across the US. It is estimated that 86% of the population speak English at home (1990 census). There is no law stipulating English as an official language, although a number of states have attempted to introduce highly controversial 'English only' laws in recent years. The US has a long tradition of English dictionaries, starting with the renowned Webster's dictionary, which was originally published in 1828. Population: c. 275 million.

Reading
Cassidy, F.G. (1994) Geographical Variation of English in the United States. In Bailey, R.W, & M. Görlach (eds) English as World Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.177-209.
Toon, T.E. (1994) Variation in Contemporary American English. In Bailey, R.W, & M. Görlach (eds) English as World Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.210-249.
Kovecses, Z. (2000) American English: An Introduction. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press.

Links

Online Newspapers

USA Today
The Washington Post
The New York Times
Online Radio Stations 
NPR

Weiterführende Informationen

Contact

The American ICE project is jointly coordinated by 

Professor Charles F. Meyer 
Bilingual/ESL Program 
University of Massachusetts-Boston 
100 Morrissey Blvd, 
Boston 
Massachusetts 02125-3393 
USA

 

Email: meyer@cs.umb.edu 
 

Hongyin Tao 
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures 
290 Royce Hall 
Los Angeles 
CA 90095 
USA

 

Email: ht37@ucla.edu 
  
Professor John Du Bois
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara CA 93106-3100 

 

Email: dubois@linguistics.ucsb.edu

 

The ICE USA project includes the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English