English Accents and Dialects

English Accents and Dialects
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Publisher : Hodder Education
Total Pages : 142
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ISBN-10 : 0340614463
ISBN-13 : 9780340614464
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Book Synopsis English Accents and Dialects by : Arthur Hughes

Download or read book English Accents and Dialects written by Arthur Hughes and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 1996-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique introductory survey of the main regional and social varieties of English spoken in the British Isles. In the book, the authors discuss accent and dialect in the broader framework of language variation, including phonetic, phonological, grammatical, lexical, historical and stylistic differences. This is followed by a survey of the speech of twelve different areas of the British Isles. The cassette which accompanies the book consists of edited interviews (all transcribed in the book) with speakers from each of the different areas. The third edition has been thoroughly revised and includes an entirely new chapter on Received Pronunciation. The cassette now includes recordings of three different varieties of RP speech. Entirely new sections, with corresponding recordings, have been added on Lowland Scots, Devon and Dublin speech.


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