29.3567, Books: East Midlands English: Braber, Robinson

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Subject: 29.3567, Books: East Midlands English: Braber, Robinson

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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 16:00:49
From: Pablo Dominguez Andersen [pablo.dominguez at degruyter.com]
Subject: East Midlands English: Braber, Robinson

 


Title: East Midlands English 
Series Title: Dialects of English [DOE]  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/455815?format=G 


Author: Natalie Braber
Author: Jonnie Robinson

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501510724 Pages: 186 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

This volume will provide a comprehensive yet accessible description of East
Midlands English, an area of neglect in linguistic research. Existing
publications, which aggregate the findings of earlier surveys and more recent
localised studies presenting an overview of regional speech in the UK, are
either lacking up-to-date research data from the East Midlands or simply
ignore the region.

A coordinated survey of dialects of the East Midlands was part of the Survey
of English Dialects (SED) in the 1950s. This data is now over sixty years old
and focuses almost exclusively on broad rural dialect speakers. This book will
fill the knowledge and literature gaps by comparing vernacular speech in
different urban and rural locations in the East Midlands, and examining
whether the East Midlands is a 'transition zone' between the North and South.
Recordings held by the British Library will be used, and will be supplemented
with recordings made with local speakers.

Language in the East Midlands is distinctive and there is considerable
regional variety, for instance, between speech in the major urban centres of
Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. Bringing out this regional variation will
also improve our wider understanding of language variation in English. The
concept of the East Midlands in itself is not a clear one, and this volume
aims to address such issues and to examine what makes the East Midlands an
area of itself and what this area includes.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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