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English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles, Fifth Edition: Hodder Education Publication

Autor Arthur Hughes, Peter Trudgill, Dominic Watt
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2012
English Accents and Dialects is an essential guide to contemporary social and regional varieties of English spoken in the British Isles today.

Together with invaluable overviews of numerous regional accents and dialects, this fifth edition provides you with a detailed description of key features of Received Pronounciation (RP) as well as several major non-standard varieties of English. The main regional differences are followed by a survey of speech in over 20 areas of the UK and Ireland, audio samples of which are available online free for you to download.

Thoroughly updated to include recent findings on London English, Aberdeen English and Liverpool English, this fifth edition of English Accents and Dialects also contains:

-new entries on Hull, Manchester, Carlisle, Middlesbrough, Southampton, London West Indian, Lancashire and the Shetlands
-over 20 audio recordings free for you to download from www.hodderplus.com/linguistics
-additional exercises to accompany the new varieties and answers online
-even clearer maps, helping you to find the locations of particular accents and dialects more precisely
-the latest International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) chart for reference.

This combination of reference manual and practical guide makes this fifth edition of English Accents and Dialects a highly useful resource that provides you with comprehensive and contemporary coverage of speech in the UK and Ireland today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781444121384
ISBN-10: 1444121383
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: illustrations, maps
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Routledge
Seria Hodder Education Publication


Cuprins

Preface
Acknowledgements
Word list
List of online recordings
IPA chart
Chapter 1: Variation in English
Chapter 2: Dialect variation
Chapter 3: Received Pronunciation
Chapter 4: Regional Accent variation
Chapter 5: British Isles accents and dialects:
      London Cockney
      London West Indian
      Norwich
      Bristol
      Southampton
      South Wales
      West Midlands
      Leicester
      Bradford
      Liverpool
      Hull
      Manchester
      Middlesbrough
      Carlisle
      Edinburgh
      Aberdeen
      Belfast
      Dublin
      Galway
      Devon
      Lancashire
      Northumberland
      Lowland Scots
      Shetland Isles
Suggestions for using the book
Further reading
References
Index

Recenzii

'This book really is a star. Written by people who really know how difficult it can be to pinpoint accents and dialects, this book provides maps and diagrams showing their locations, and differing phonological features of areas. The terminology is easily understood, so much so that it was a pleasure to read.' A reader from Essex (amazon.co.uk)

Notă biografică

DOMINIC WATT is Senior Lecturer in Forensic Speech Science at the University of York, UK.

ARTHUR HUGHES taught Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading for 25 years, setting up and directing the Testing and Evaluation Unit. On sabbatical from Reading, he directed English language testing projects at Bosphorus University, Istanbul (1982-84) and in the Ministry of Secondary Education, Morocco (1992-93). He was joint founder-editor of the international journal Language Testing, has published widely in the field of testing and has carried out consultancies in the UK and in several countries overseas. His book, Testing for Language Teachers, now in its second edition, was first published in 1989 and continues to be a bestseller. Though now retired, Arthur continues to write and act as a consultant.

PETER TRUDGILL is Adjunct Prof. of Socio-Linguistics at Agder University, Norway, Adjunct Professor, RCLT, La Trobe University, Australia, Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics, Fribourg University, Switzerland, Honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics, UEA, Norwich, UK