Walt Wolfram Papers 1971-1998

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Walt Wolfram Papers, 1971-1998

Walt Wolfram Papers 1971-1998

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Walt Wolfram was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in February 1941. Wolfram graduated from Wheaton College in 1963 where he received a B.A in Anthropology and minored in Greek. In 1964 he received a B.A. in linguistics from the University of Chicago. Wolfram also holds a M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1969) in Linguistics and Anthropology from Hartford Seminary Foundation. Walt Wolfram is currently the William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of English Linguistics at North Carolina State University. Since joining NCSU faculty in 1992, Wolfram's has concentrated his efforts on preserving the rich linguistic heritage of North Carolina and raising public awareness of its cultural significance. Wolfram has pioneered research on social and ethnic dialects since the 1960s, authoring or co-authoring 20 books and more than 250 articles on varieties of American English. This collection contains the audio recordings from 1971-1998 of interviews conducted early in Wolfram’s career with speakers of Appalachian English, Puerto Rican English, Vietnamese English, Ozark English, and African-American vernacular English. The collection also features transcripts of many of the interviews and manuscripts of Wolfram’s resulting work on these dialects.

22.5 Linear feet, 15 cartons

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