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Southern English Varieties Then and Now / ed. by Laura Wright.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 100Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (V, 296 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110575217
  • 9783110575316
  • 9783110577549
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 427/.9422 23
LOC classification:
  • PE1771 .S66 2018
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Dialect formation and dialect change in the Industrial Revolution: British vernacular English in the nineteenth century -- 2. The dialect of the Isles of Scilly: Exploring the relationship between language production and language perception in a Southern insular variety -- 3. A new dialect for a new village: Evidence for koinéization in East Kent -- 4. The clergyman and the dialect speaker: Some Sussex examples of a nineteenth century research tradition -- 5. I’ll git the milk time you bile the kittle do you oon’t get no tea yit no coffee more oon’t I: Phonetic erosion and grammaticalisation in East Anglian conjunction-formation -- 6. Emphatic “yes” and “no” in Eastern English: jearse and dow -- 7. Steps towards characterizing Bristolian -- 8. ‘I don’t think I have an accent’: Exploring varieties of southern English at the British Library -- 9. The historical geographical distribution of periphrastic do in southern dialects -- Index
Summary: Most of the world’s Extraterritorial Englishes stem historically from southern English dialects - Southern England having been the most densely-habited part of the country. However, the dialects of Southern England remain under-studied. The papers in this volume consider both diachronic and synchronic aspects of the dialects of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Gloucestershire and the Isles of Scilly.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Dialect formation and dialect change in the Industrial Revolution: British vernacular English in the nineteenth century -- 2. The dialect of the Isles of Scilly: Exploring the relationship between language production and language perception in a Southern insular variety -- 3. A new dialect for a new village: Evidence for koinéization in East Kent -- 4. The clergyman and the dialect speaker: Some Sussex examples of a nineteenth century research tradition -- 5. I’ll git the milk time you bile the kittle do you oon’t get no tea yit no coffee more oon’t I: Phonetic erosion and grammaticalisation in East Anglian conjunction-formation -- 6. Emphatic “yes” and “no” in Eastern English: jearse and dow -- 7. Steps towards characterizing Bristolian -- 8. ‘I don’t think I have an accent’: Exploring varieties of southern English at the British Library -- 9. The historical geographical distribution of periphrastic do in southern dialects -- Index

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Most of the world’s Extraterritorial Englishes stem historically from southern English dialects - Southern England having been the most densely-habited part of the country. However, the dialects of Southern England remain under-studied. The papers in this volume consider both diachronic and synchronic aspects of the dialects of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Gloucestershire and the Isles of Scilly.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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