English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles, Fifth Edition - The English Language Series (Paperback) Arthur Hughes (author), Peter Trudgill (author), Dr. Dominic Watt (author). English accents and dialects: an introduction to social and regional varieties of British English / Arthur Hughes and Peter Trudgill. PDF ' alt='Download Voices. Hughes A., Trudgill P.: English Accents and Dialects (An. I have been correcting several Scotch accents. Movements of people over time leads to division into separate dialects that.
English Accents and Dialects is an essential guide to the varieties of English spoken in Britain and Ireland today. Together with invaluable overviews of numerous regional accents and dialects, this fifth edition provides you with a set of diagnostic tools to help you identify Received Pronounciation 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. In this fifth edition, accent and dialect are discussed within the broader framework of language variation, including phonetic, phonological, grammatical, lexical, historical and stylistic differences. Thoroughly updated to include recent findings on London English, Aberdeen English and Liverpool English, Englsih Accents and Dialects, Fifth Edition also contains:.New entries on Hull, Manchester, Carlisle, Middlesbrough, Southampton, West London, Lancashire and the Shetlands.Over 20 audio recordings free for you to download from www.hodderplus.com/linguistics.Additional exercises to accompany the new varieties and answers online.Even clearer maps.The latest International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) chart. 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.
New Delhi: Routledge/Manohar Publishers & Distributors English Accents and Dialects is an essential guide to contemporary social and regional varieties of English spoken in the British Isles today.