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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.

    Trade Review
    '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)

    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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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/27/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781444121384, 978-1444121384
      ISBN10: 1444121383
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.

        Trade Review
        '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)

        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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