New York: Routledge, 2002. — 248 p. — (Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics). Despite the advances of radio and television, despite increasing mobility and urbanization, spoken English is by no means becoming more like the written standard. English dialect grammar, however, is still a new and relatively undeveloped area of research, and most studies to date are either...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 241 p. Where do dialects differ from Standard English, and why are they so remarkably resilient? This new study argues that commonly used verbs that deviate from Standard English for the most part have a long pedigree. Analysing the language use of over 120 dialect speakers, Lieselotte Anderwald demonstrates that not only are speakers...
Reaktion Books, 2019. — 320 p. Polari is a English language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. At a time when being gay could result in criminal prosecution – or worse – Polari offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage, a way of expressing humour, and a means of identification and of establishing a community. Its roots are...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 317 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics). — ISBN10: 3110448653, ISBN13: 978-3110448658. Northern English has been the object of much attention linguistically over the last thirty years but scholars have had a tendency to focus on the phonology of the dialects and varieties encountered. The purpose of the present volume is to complement and enrich the...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 136 p. Are the dialects of England disappearing in the wake of globalisation and Estuary English , or are geographical differences as strong as ever? Joan Beal looks at recent research into regional variation in England, discusses the evidence for dialect levelling and argues that, despite this, features of dialect are still clear...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. — 198 p. — (Dialects of English 15). This volume will provide a comprehensive yet accessible description of East Midlands English, an area of neglect in linguistic research. Existing publications, which aggregate the findings of earlier surveys and more recent localised studies presenting an overview of regional speech in the UK, are either lacking...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. — 198 p. — (Dialects of English 15). This volume will provide a comprehensive yet accessible description of East Midlands English, an area of neglect in linguistic research. Existing publications, which aggregate the findings of earlier surveys and more recent localised studies presenting an overview of regional speech in the UK, are either lacking...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 522 pages.
The book provides a comprehensive survey of the dialects spoken in the British Isles. Topics covered include the history of English, the relationship between Standard and Non-Standard Englishes, the major non-standard varieties spoken on the islands, the history of multilingualism, and the educational and planning...
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1988. — 194 p. This volume centres on empirical sociolinguistic work I have done in Cardiff since 1978. In the early stages of that work, my aim was the relatively straightforward one of setting on record central aspects of English as spoken in the Welsh capital a distinctive dialect-system that was at that time little investigated and given...
Macmillan, 2015. — 165 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4472-8279-2. dabberlick [noun, Scotland] A mildly insulting way of talking about someone who is tall and skinny. 'Where's that dabberlick of a child?' fubsy [adjective, Lancashire] Plump, in a nice sort of way. squinch [noun, Devon] A narrow crack in a wall or a space between floorboards. 'I lost sixpence through a squinch in the floor'....
Random House, 2010. — 224 p. — ISBN: 1905211791 When it’s cold, are you nithered, taters or perishing? The English language in Britain changes from county to county, with hundreds of local words to discover. Susie Dent’s beguiling guide to these words charts their origins and development.
D. S. Brewer, 2001. — xii, 264 pages. — ISBN: 0-85991-571-9. East Anglia — the easternmost area of England — was probably home to the first-ever form of language which can be called English. East Anglian English has had a very considerable input into the formation of Standard English, and contributed importantly to the development of American English and (to a lesser extent)...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 329 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics). — ISBN13: 978-3110240283. The book offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on grammatical variation in the British Isles. The volume is of interest to dialectologists, sociolinguists, typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anyone working on the structure of spontaneous...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. — 494 p. — (Varieties of English Around the World G55). Northern English has become the focus of intensive research in the past decade or so, following on a series of dedicated conferences. The present book brings together leading-edge contributions on various aspects of language use, variation and change in the North of England. The...
Truro : Netherton & Worth, 1882. - 351 p. The ancient language and the dialect of Cornwall : with an enlarged glossary of Cornish provincial words : also an appendix, containing a list of writers on Cornish dialect, and additional information about Dolly Pentreath, the last known person who spoke the ancient Cornish as her mother tongue В книге есть сведение не только по...
Truro : Netherton & Worth, 1882. - 351 p. The ancient language and the dialect of Cornwall : with an enlarged glossary of Cornish provincial words : also an appendix, containing a list of writers on Cornish dialect, and additional information about Dolly Pentreath, the last known person who spoke the ancient Cornish as her mother tongue В книге есть сведение не только по...
Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2018. — 149 p. — (Language in Performance 51). This book presents a synchronic investigation of variation and change processes in Carlisle English, a variety spoken in the far north-west of England. The dataset is based on sociolinguistic interviews and the variation in the variables GOOSE, GOAT and FOOT, (T), (R) and (TH) is analysed...
London: John Russell Smith, 36, Soho Square. 1869. — 167 p. The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire: With a glossary of words now in use there also with poems and other pieces exemplifying the dialect. Second edition: The whole revised, corrected, and enlarged, with two dissertations on the Anglo-Saxon pronouns. Dedication Preface to the Second Edition...
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2005. — 384 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics 50.1). — ISBN: 3110182998.
The book covers the topics such as comparative dialect grammar from a typological perspective, the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus, relative clauses in English dialects of the British Isles, verbal concord variation in the north of the British Isles, Gender in English pronouns...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2008. — 512 p. This volume gives a detailed overview of the varieties of English spoken on the British Isles, including lesser-known varieties such as those spoken in Orkney and Shetland and the Channel Islands. The chapters, written by widely acclaimed specialists, provide concise and comprehensive information on the phonological, morphological and syntactic...
Routledge, 2015. — xvi, 245 p. — (Routledge Library Editions: The English Language). — ISBN: 978-1-315-68992-0. Although Cockney can be considered to be one of the most important non-standard forms of English, there had been little to no scholarly attention on the dialect prior to William Matthews’s 1938 volume Cockney Past and Present. Matthews traced the course of the speech...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1995. — 224 p. — (Varieties of English Around the World G14). Among the topics treated in this collection are the status of Scots as a national language; the orthography of Scots; the actual and potential degree of standardisation of Scots; the debt of the vocabulary of Scots to Gaelic; the use of Scots in fictional dialogue; and the...
Routledge, 2022. — 207 p. This timely volume constitutes the first book-length account of implicit as well as explicit language attitudes. It details the findings of a large-scale study, incorporating cutting-edge implicit and self-report instruments adapted from social psychology, investigating the evaluations of over 300 English nationals of the status and social...
Penguin Group, 2014. — 128 p. — ISBN: 1592408982. The quintessential A to Z guide to British English—perfect for every egghead and bluestocking looking to conquer the language barrier Oscar Wilde once said the Brits have "everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language." Any visitor to Old Blighty can sympathize with Mr. Wilde. After all, even fluent...
Gotham Books, 2014. — 128 p. — ISBN 1592408982. The quintessential A to Z guide to British English—perfect for every egghead and bluestocking looking to conquer the language barrier Oscar Wilde once said the Brits have "everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language." Any visitor to Old Blighty can sympathize with Mr. Wilde. After all, even fluent...
Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. — 329 p. This book, first published in 1933, examines the dialect of the people of Byers Green in County Durham. Orton explores the possible reasons behind why the dialect has signs of external influences, and the ways in which it differs to the dialects of other populations in County Durham. This title will be of interest to students of language...
Hamburg, 1998. — 120 p. The term 'Received Pronunciation' ('RP') has in the course of this century come to designate – at least among linguists and EFL teachers – the British English style of pronunciation that carries the highest overt prestige. It is generally agreed that it has long lost all associations with its regional origin (London and the South-East of England) and is...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 288 p. — (Dialects of English 12). This book is the first comprehensive, research-based description of the development, structure, and use of Welsh English, a contact-induced variety of English spoken in the British Isles. Present-day accents and dialects of Welsh English are the combined outcome of historical language shift from Welsh to English,...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 287 p. — (Dialects of English 12). This book is the first comprehensive, research-based description of the development, structure, and use of Welsh English, a contact-induced variety of English spoken in the British Isles. Present-day accents and dialects of Welsh English are the combined outcome of historical language shift from Welsh to English,...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1985. — 409 p. — (Varieties of English Around the World G6). This volume is concerned with one of the few thorough-going Labovian studies carried out in Britain. Based on a survey of over hundred randomly selected informants from the towns of Bradford, Halifax and Huddersfield, it deals first with the methodology employed, and then sketches...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. — 249 p. — (Varieties of English Around the World G48). — ISBN10: 9027249083 Situated at the crossroads of dialectology, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics, this volume provides a first comprehensive description of the morphosyntactic inventory of the variety of English spoken on Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands. Based on...
University of Sussex, 2021. — 489 p. I present a study of variation, change, and social meaning of Anglo-Cornish dialect lexis. This study is informed by a year-long ethnographic participant-observation in the Cornish towns on Camborne and Redruth as well as novel lexis-oriented sociolinguistic interviews with 87 participants from the same area. I investigate the inter-speaker...
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2011. — 160p. This beautifully packaged and accessible guide is the perfect companion to learning the phrases of London's East End and the interesting origins behind Cockney Rhyming Slang—a language first invented as a secret code among the thieves of London's underworld. Organized thematically, the book allows the reader to gain a full...
The British Library, 2011. — 17 p.
Do you call bread a roll? a bap, barm cake, batch, bread cake, cob, scuffler or stottie? Do you pronounce the word plant to rhyme with ant? One of the most intriguing differences between speech and writing is that even the briefest of spoken utterances can reveal something about our identity.
From Scots to Scouse and Geordie to Cockney, the...
The British Library, 2011. — 17 p.
Do you call bread a roll? a bap, barm cake, batch, bread cake, cob, scuffler or stottie? Do you pronounce the word plant to rhyme with ant? One of the most intriguing differences between speech and writing is that even the briefest of spoken utterances can reveal something about our identity.
From Scots to Scouse and Geordie to Cockney, the...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 258 p. — (Dialects of English 21). This book is the first full-scale scientific study of East Anglian English. The author is a native East Anglian sociolinguist and dialectologist who has devoted decades to the study of the speechways of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex. He examines their relationships to other varieties of English in...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 256 p. — (Dialects of English 21). This book is the first full-scale scientific study of East Anglian English. The author is a native East Anglian sociolinguist and dialectologist who has devoted decades to the study of the speechways of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex. He examines their relationships to other varieties of English in...
Blackwell Publishers, 1990. — 176 p. Do you know any nice lasses, maidens, wenches or mathers, or are they all just plain girls to you? Do your shoes include pumps, daps, plimsolls, gillies 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...
Routledge, 2013. — 223 p. 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...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1985. — 311 p. — (Varieties of English Around the World G4). This volume is a wide-ranging study in dialectology. General surveys appear along with in-depth studies of particular problems. Some papers describe the present situation in terms of dynamic synchrony, others deal with the past and making use of present-day dialectal data to help...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1986. — 246 p. — (Varieties of English Around the World T5). The volume consists of a substantial introduction, providing a geographical and historical outline of the area, an account of the origin of the area, an account of the origin of present-day southwestern speech varieties and a synopsis of their main features. This is followed by texts...
Учебное пособие. Изд. 2-е, стереотипное. — М.: КомКнига, 2005. — 184 с. Книга является первым в отечественной германистике опытом синхронного описания современных английских территориальных диалектов в сопоставлении с литературным стандартом английского языка. Содержит англо-русский диалектный словарь. Предназначается для специалистов-филологов, студентов педагогических институтов...
Учебное пособие. Изд. 2-е, стереотипное. — М.: КомКнига, 2005. — 184 с. Книга является первым в отечественной германистике опытом синхронного описания современных английских территориальных диалектов в сопоставлении с литературным стандартом английского языка. Содержит англо-русский диалектный словарь. Предназначается для специалистов-филологов, студентов педагогических институтов...
М.: Высшая школа, 1982. — 137 с. — (Библиотека филолога). В пособии рассматриваются фонетические, грамматические и словообразовательные особенности английских социальных диалектов, в частности сленга. Впервые сделана попытка подойти к решению проблемы этимологии сленговой лексики путем анализа контаминаций в германских средневековых глоссариях. В пособие включен краткий словарь...
М.: Высшая школа, 1982. — 137 с. — (Библиотека филолога).
В пособии рассматриваются фонетические, грамматические и словообразовательные особенности английских социальных диалектов, в частности сленга. Впервые сделана попытка подойти к решению проблемы этимологии сленговой лексики путем анализа контаминаций в германских средневековых глоссариях.
В пособие включен краткий...
Издательские решения, 2022. — 308 с. И смех, и грех — так можно коротко охарактеризовать британский сленг. Вместе с тем, в нём таится много интересного из истории и культуры, попавших на Британские острова народов. Перед вами одна из редких отечественных книг, рассматривающая британский сленг с разных сторон и в сочных примерах. Предназначена для широкого круга читателей,...
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