Title: The Language and RegionSeries: Intertext
Author(s): Joan C. Beal
Publisher: Routledge
Date: April 2006
Pages: 131
Size: 1.15 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English
Language and Region:
• provides an accessible guide to regional variation in English
• covers topical issues including loss of regional diversity and attitudes to regional accents and dialects
• examines the use of dialect in media, advertising and the tourist industry
• outlines the main linguistic characteristics of regional accents and dialects in terms of regional pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar [+/-]
Affording hands-on practical experience of textual analysis, this book is essential reading for students of English language studies.
About the author
Joan C. Beal is Professor of English Language and Director of the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests are in dialectology and the recent history of English.
• provides an accessible guide to regional variation in English
• covers topical issues including loss of regional diversity and attitudes to regional accents and dialects
• examines the use of dialect in media, advertising and the tourist industry
• outlines the main linguistic characteristics of regional accents and dialects in terms of regional pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar [+/-]
Affording hands-on practical experience of textual analysis, this book is essential reading for students of English language studies.
About the author
Joan C. Beal is Professor of English Language and Director of the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests are in dialectology and the recent history of English.
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