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English Accents & Dialects (The English Language Series) Paperback - 2012 - 5th Edition

by Hughes, Arthur

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  • Title English Accents & Dialects (The English Language Series)
  • Author Hughes, Arthur
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 5th
  • Edition 5
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2012-04-27
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1444121383.G
  • ISBN 9781444121384 / 1444121383
  • Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.48 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.22 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects English language - Great Britain, English language - Dialects - Great Britain
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014498728
  • Dewey Decimal Code 427.9

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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 a detailed description of key features of Received Pronounciation (RP) as well as several major non-standard varieties of English.

Key features:

  • 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 to download at www.routledge.com/cw/hughes
  • recent findings on London English, Aberdeen English and Liverpool English
  • contains new entries on Hull, Manchester, Carlisle, Middlesbrough, Southampton, London West Indian, Lancashire and the Shetlands
  • additional exercises with answers online accompany the new varieties
  • clear maps throughout for locating particular accents and dialects.

This combination of reference manual and practical guide makes this fifth edition of English Accents and Dialects a highly useful resource providing a comprehensive and contemporary coverage of speech in the UK and Ireland today.

About the author

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