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American English: Dialects and Variation
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American English: Dialects and VariationThe new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field of American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences.
Now accompanied by a companion website with an extensive array of sound files, video clips, and other online materials to enhance and illustrate discussions in the text Features brand new chapters that cover the very latest topics, such as Levels of Dialect, Regional Varieties of English, Gender and Language Variation, The Application of Dialect Study, and Dialect Awareness: Extending Application, as well as new exercises with online answers Updated to contain dialect samples from a wider array of US regions
 
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Tags: English, Dialect, array, Application, Variation
Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction
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Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction

Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of words--morphology or phonology--and more at how our words and sentences are influenced by the society around us--for instance, how the accent or the dialect we use has been shaped by where we come from or which social class we belong to.
 
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Tags: language, social, Sociolinguistics, accent, dialect
An Introduction to Regional Englishes: Dialect Variation in England
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An Introduction to Regional Englishes: Dialect Variation in EnglandAre the dialects of England disappearing in the wake of globalisation and Estuary English , or are geographical differences as strong as ever? Joan Beal looks at recent research into regional variation in England, discusses the evidence for dialect levelling and argues that, despite this, features of dialect are still clear markers of regional and local identity. Chapters outlining the main regional differences in accent, dialect grammar and dialect vocabulary are followed by discussions of research into geographical diffusion, levelling, issues of identity and stereotypes.
 
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Tags: dialect, regional, England, identity, differences
A Dictionary of North East Dialect
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A Dictionary of North East DialectA Dictionary of North East Dialect

As entertaining as it is informative, this dictionary offers records and explanations of a northern English dialect.
 
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Tags: dialect, English, Dictionary, North, Dialect, northern
Doric - The Dialect of North-east Scotland
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Doric - The Dialect of North-east ScotlandDoric - The Dialect of North-east Scotland

The dialect of North-East Scotland, one of the most distinctive and best preserved in the country, survives as both a proudly maintained mark of local identity and the vehicle for a remarkable regional literature. The present study, after placing the dialect in its historical, geographical and social context, discusses in some detail a selection of previous accounts of its distinctive characteristics of phonology and grammar, showing that its shibboleths have been well recognised, and have remained consistent, over a long period. Passages of recorded speech are then examined, with extensive use of phonetic transcription.
 
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Tags: dialect, Scotland, distinctive, showing, shibboleths, Doric, Dialect