American Accent Training

The articles in this book relate to a wide range of different subject
fields and spheres of interest, from environmentalism to rock music,
politics to youth culture, technology to children's toys. Just as the
subject coverage is inclusive, treating weighty and superficial topics as
even-handedly as possible, so the coverage of different registers, or
levels of use, of the language is intended to give equal weight to the
formal, the informal, and examples of slang and colloquialism.