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Arthur Hughes

English Accents and Dialects

An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles, Fifth Edition

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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 you with a detailed description of key features of Received Pronounciation (RP) as well as several major non-standard varieties of English. The 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 online free for you to download.Thoroughly updated to include recent findings on London English, Aberdeen English and L… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Trudgill, Peter / Watt, Dominic
  • ISBN: 978-1-4441-2138-4
  • EAN: 9781444121384
  • Produktnummer: 11481878
  • Verlag: Taylor and Francis
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.5 cm 361 g
  • Auflage: 5. A.
  • Abbildungen: illustrations, maps
  • Gewicht: 361

Über den Autor


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

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