Style and Variables in English has a companion volume, Standards and Dialects in English. These books give an introduction to the English language, especially American English, as part of the culture of those who speak it. The books are written for a general audience, and in a style that involves readers in exploring data in such a way as to give them the ability, and the authors hope the desire, to continue with research on their own. The companion volume views the kind of variation in English that distinguishes communities and social groups from each other, this one the kind that one finds in the same community and in the words of the same person.ISBN:0876268661