Introducing Language and Society (Penguin English Linguistics)

Peter Trudgill

Penguin Books, Ltd.

<p>First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.</p>

The Sociolinguistics Reader: Volume 1: Multilingualism and Variation

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Hodder Education Publishers

Do you know any nice lasses, maidens, wenches or mawthers, or are they all just plain girls to you? Do your shoes include pumps, daps, plimsolls, gollies and sandshoes, or do you settle for ordinary trainers instead? If you think Geordies would do better to speak like BBC announcers, if you think the Queen's English is the only English there is, then this book is not for you. "The Dialects of England" celebrates the rich variety of the regional and social dialects of Engish in all its forms, ancient and modern. It covers Zummerzet and Scouse, Cockney and Cumberland, Brummie and Berkshire, Nottingham and Norfolk. It deplores the trend towards linguistic uniformity urged on us by the self-appointed guardians of the purity of the English language. English dialects are the result of 1500 years of linguistic and cultural development. Written in non-technical language, this book outlines their history and their geography. It describes the diversity of vocabulary, accent, grammar and literature to be found among the dialects of England.

The dialects of England

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Blackwell*publishers

Sociolinguistic patterns in British English

E. Arnold

English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of British English

Arthur Hughes

Hodder & Stoughton Educ.

Sociolinguistic Patterns in British English

Edward Arnold

University Park Press

English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles, Fifth Edition (The English Language Series)

Dominic Watt

Routledge

In Sfakia

Likavitos / Distributed by Greece in Print

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