East Midlands English / / Natalie Braber, Jonnie Robinson.
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 e...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Dialects of English [DOE] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XII, 186 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Map of the East Midlands -- 1. Geography, demography, and cultural factors -- 2. Phonetics and phonology -- 3. Morphology and syntax -- 4. Lexis -- 5. Annotated transcripts -- 6. Annotated bibliography and references -- Index |
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Summary: | 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 up-to-date research data from the East Midlands or simply ignore the region. A coordinated survey of dialects of the East Midlands was part of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) in the 1950s. This data is now over sixty years old and focuses almost exclusively on broad rural dialect speakers. This book will fill the knowledge and literature gaps by comparing vernacular speech in different urban and rural locations in the East Midlands, and examining whether the East Midlands is a 'transition zone' between the North and South. Recordings held by the British Library will be used, and will be supplemented with recordings made with local speakers. Language in the East Midlands is distinctive and there is considerable regional variety, for instance, between speech in the major urban centres of Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. Bringing out this regional variation will also improve our wider understanding of language variation in English. The concept of the East Midlands in itself is not a clear one, and this volume aims to address such issues and to examine what makes the East Midlands an area of itself and what this area includes. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501502354 9783110762488 9783110719550 9783110742978 9783110604252 9783110603255 9783110604078 9783110603170 |
ISSN: | 2164-7445 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781501502354 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Natalie Braber, Jonnie Robinson. |