English accents & dialects
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English accents & dialects
Routledge, 2013
5th ed
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English accents & dialects : an introduction to social and regional varieties of English in the British Isles
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-196) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 a detailed description of key features of Received Pronounciation (RP) as well as several major non-standard varieties of English.
Key features:
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 to download at www.routledge.com/cw/hughes
recent findings on London English, Aberdeen English and Liverpool English
contains new entries on Hull, Manchester, Carlisle, Middlesbrough, Southampton, London West Indian, Lancashire and the Shetlands
additional exercises with answers online accompany the new varieties
clear maps throughout for locating particular accents and dialects.
This combination of reference manual and practical guide makes this fifth edition of English Accents and Dialects a highly useful resource providing a comprehensive and contemporary coverage of speech in the UK and Ireland today.
Table of Contents
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
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