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West Midlands English : Birmingham and the Black Country
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ISBN: 9780748641680 9780748641697 9780748685806 0748641688 0748641696 0748685804 9780748693900 0748693904 0748685820 9780748685820 1322981434 9781322981437 Year: 2013 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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This volume focuses on the closely allied yet differing linguistic varieties of Birmingham and its immediate neighbour to the west, the industrial heartland of the Black Country. Both of these areas rose to economic prominence and success during the Industrial Revolution, and both have suffered economically and socially as a result of post-war industrial decline. The industrial heritage of both areas has meant that tight knit and socially homogeneous individual areas in each region have demonstrated in many respects little linguistic change over time, and have continued to exhibit linguistic features, especially morphological constructions, peculiar to these areas or now restricted to these areas. At the same time, immigration from other areas of the British Isles over time, from Commonwealth countries and later from EU member states, together with increased social mobility, have meant that newly developing structures and more widespread UK linguistic phenomena have spread into these varieties. This volume provides a clear description of the structure of the linguistic varieties spoken in the two areas.


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A word geography of England
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ISBN: 0127856080 9780127856087 Year: 1974 Publisher: London Seminar press

Sociolinguistic reflexes of dialect interference in West Wirral.
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ISBN: 3820497676 9783820497670 Year: 1986 Volume: 18 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Lang


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Soziolinguistische Untersuchungen zum Englisch von Cornwall.
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ISBN: 3820451714 9783820451719 Year: 1984 Volume: Bd. 14 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Lang

A critical facsimile edition of Thomas Batchelor : an orthoëpical analysis of the English language and an orthoëpical analysis of the dialect of Bedfordshire (1809).
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ISBN: 9140034631 9789140034632 Year: 1974 Volume: 45 Publisher: Lund Gleerup

Tyne bytes : a computerised sociolinguistic study of Tyneside.
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ISBN: 3820476555 9783820476552 Year: 1983 Volume: Bd. 11 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Lang

Syntactic variation and unconscious linguistic change : a study of adjectival relative clauses in the dialect of Dorset.
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ISBN: 3631458363 9783631458365 Year: 1993 Volume: 33 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Lang

English in nineteenth-century England : an introduction
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ISBN: 0521476844 052147101X 0511627823 9780521476843 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Nineteenth-century English can in many ways be claimed to have laid the foundations for the present-day language, but until recently it has not received as much attention from scholars of linguistics as the English of earlier periods. This book provides an introduction to the distinctive features of nineteenth-century English in England, from spelling to text-types. It examines a wide range of varieties, including political speeches, newspaper articles, advertisements, obituaries, Sunday School poetry, and culinary recipes, so as to illustrate the range of dialects and levels found in the language of that period. The first part of the book provides an overview of the subject, while the second part contains an extensive selection of texts. 100 exercises spread throughout the book serve to introduce the student to the problems and methods involved in English historical linguistics.

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