The sounds of language: an introduction to phonetics
Phonetics is the scientific study of sounds used in language. This study considers the two most influential accents in English: the British and the American. In particular, it examines how the sounds of English are made, asking: What do we do with our bodies to produce each diff…
Handbuch der Orientalistik: The Near and Middle East
What is the explanation for the nature, character and evolution of the many different varieties of English in the world today? Which changes in the English language are the legacy of its origins and which are the product of novel influences in the places to which it was transpor…
This is a systematic and critical appraisal of the variety of ways in which people's attitudes to language have been researched internationally over recent decades. The authors explain this complex field through clear reviews and commentary on previous work, while also offering …
In this book, Michael Newman examines the differences and similarities among the ways English is spoken by the extraordinarily diverse population living in the NY dialect region. He uses data from a variety of sources including older dialectological accounts, classic and recent …
The present volume seeks to unite the research of a range of scholars working on features of non-standard, vernacular English which show an areal distribution, i.e. which cluster geographically across the world. The volume is concerned with dialect input, innovations among varie…
Part sociolinguistic, part ethnographic, this text takes up the neglected question of how ethnic division interacts with variation and change in Northern Irish English. It identifies an idealized folk model of harmonious communitites. Qualitative analysis of material from London…
Interaktionell dialektologi
Answering questions about the nuts and bolts of language, this is a survey of nearly everything from how sounds become speech to how names work. Along the way we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to speak, and how politeness tr…