English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles - Softcover

Trudgill, Peter; Hughes, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340614455 ISBN 13: 9780340614457

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

'English Accents and Dialects' is a unique introductory survey of the main regional and social varieties of English spoken in the British Isles. The authors discuss accent and dialect in the broader framework of language variation, including phonetic, phonological, grammatical, lexical, historical and stylistic differences. This is followed by a survey of the speech of twelve different areas of the British Isles. The cassette which accompanies the book consists of edited interviews (all transcribed in the book) with speakers from each of the different areas.



The third edition has been thoroughly revised and includes an entirely new chapter on Received Pronunciation. Following a general description the authors discuss variations within RP and consider some of the factors which account for this variation. The cassette now includes recordings of three different varieties of RP speech. Entirely new sections, with corresponding recordings, have been added on Lowland Scots, Devon and Dublin speech.

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Review

English Accents and Dialects is a unique introductory survey of the main regional and social varieties of English spoken in the British Isles.
The Times Higher Educational Supplement

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340614455
• ISBN 13: 9780340614457
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 142