This study provides material gathered by the Survey of English Dialects in alphabetical form. It contains around 17,000 headwords and includes detailed phonetic transcriptions. A separate section provides a systematic analysis of the syntactic patterns of the various dialects. It should be a valuable tool for dialectologists worldwide.
This study provides material gathered by the Survey of English Dialects in alphabetical form. It contains around 17,000 headwords and includes detaile...
Do you call it April Fools Day, April Noddy Day, or April Gowkin Day? Is the season before winter the Autumn, the Fall, or the Backend? When you're out of breath, do you pant, puff, pank, tift, or thock? The words we use (and the sounds we make when we use them) are more often than not a product of where we live, and An Atlas of English Dialects will show you where certain words, sounds and phrases are used, and why usage varies from region to region. Based on the Survey of English Dialects, the most extensive record of English regional speech, the Atlas is a fascinating and...
Do you call it April Fools Day, April Noddy Day, or April Gowkin Day? Is the season before winter the Autumn, the Fall, or the Backend? When you're ou...
Do you call it April Fools' Day, April Noddy Day or April Gowkin' Day? Is the season before winter the Autumn, the Fall or the Backend? When you're out of breath, do you pant, puff, pank, tift or thock?
The words we use (and the sounds we make when we use them) are more often than not a product of where we live, and An Atlas of English Dialects shows the reader where certain words, sounds and phrases originate from and why usage varies from region to region. The Atlas includes:
ninety maps showing the regions in which particular words,...
Do you call it April Fools' Day, April Noddy Day or April Gowkin' Day? Is the season before winter the Autumn, the Fall or the Backend? Whe...
The "Voices" project of the British Broadcasting Corporation, a recent high-profile media investigation, gathered contemporary English dialect samples from all over the UK and invited contributions from the public to a dedicated website. This book explores both issues of ideology and representation behind the media project and uses to which the emerging data can be put in the study of language variation and change.
Two lead-in chapters, written from the complementary perspectives of a broadcast media specialist, Simon Elmes, and an academic linguist, David Crystal, set the project in...
The "Voices" project of the British Broadcasting Corporation, a recent high-profile media investigation, gathered contemporary English dialect samp...
The "Voices" project of the British Broadcasting Corporation, a recent high-profile media investigation, gathered contemporary English dialect samples from all over the UK and invited contributions from the public to a dedicated website. This book explores both issues of ideology and representation behind the media project and uses to which the emerging data can be put in the study of language variation and change.
Two lead-in chapters, written from the complementary perspectives of a broadcast media specialist, Simon Elmes, and an academic linguist, David Crystal, set the project in...
The "Voices" project of the British Broadcasting Corporation, a recent high-profile media investigation, gathered contemporary English dialect samp...
The maps presented in this volume, first published in 1987, are based on the material of the "Survey of English Dialects "which was collected from over 300 localities between 1948 and 1961. The 200 word and sound maps included in this title will lead the reader into the fascinating world of the dialects of the different regions of England. This book will be of interest to students of English language and linguistics.
The maps presented in this volume, first published in 1987, are based on the material of the "Survey of English Dialects "which was collected from ...
The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English is the most up-to-date record of the pronunciation of British and American English. Based on research by a joint UK and US team of linguistics experts, this is a unique survey of how English is really spoken in the twenty-first century. This second edition has been fully revised to include:
a full reappraisal of the pronunciation models for modern British and American English;
2,000 new entries, including new words from the last decade, encyclopedic terms and proper names;
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The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English is the most up-to-date record of the pronunciation of British and American E...
