English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles

by Dominic Watt, Peter Trudgill, Arthur Hughes

Book Overview

This book is a unique introductory survey of the main regional and social varieties of English spoken in the British Isles. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340614455
• ISBN13: 9780340614457
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"