This book presents an overview of sociolinguistic research in England. Showcasing developments in sociolinguistic theory, method and application, the chapters examine sociolinguistic topics aon different linguistic levels and in different geographical areas across the country. Allowing the reader to engage with contemporary research in the field, each chapter is unique in the topic or geographical area explored. Topics include historical sociolinguistics, British Sign Language, lexical variation, life-span change, and variation and innovation in urban and peripheral areas; while the regions covered range from Cornwall to West Cumbria. Edited and authored by a range of international scholars, this is sure to be a key research resource for students and scholars interested in language use in England.
Chapter 1. Introduction; Sandra Jansen and Natalie BraberChapter 2. Urban literacies and processes of supralocalisation: a historical sociolinguistic perspective; Anita AuerChapter 3. Social change, linguistic change and sociolinguistic change in Received Pronunciation; Anne FabriciusChapter 4. The changing language of urban youth: a pilot study; Rob DrummondChapter 5. Stylisation and the dynamics of migration, ethnicity and class; Ben RamptonChapter 6. The perceptual dialectology of England; Chris MontgomeryChapter 7. Variation and change in British Sign Language in England; Adam Schembri, Rose Stamp, Jordan Fenlon and Kearsy CormierChapter 8. Language change and innovation in London: Multicultural London English; Sue Fox and Eivind TorgersenChapter 9. The effect of economic trajectory and speaker profile on life-span change: Evidence from stative possessives on Tyneside; Isabelle Buchstaller and Adam MearnsChapter 10. Pit talk in the East Midlands; Natalie Braber Chapter 11. Studying intonation in varieties of English: Gender and individual variation in Liverpool; Claire Nance, Sam Kirkham, Eve GroarkeChapter 12. Peripheral communities and innovation. Changes in the GOOSE vowel in a West Cumbrian town; Sandra JansenChapter 13. 'Doing Cornishness' in the English periphery: Embodying ideology through Anglo-Cornish dialect lexis; Rhys J. Sandow and Justyna A. RobinsonChapter 14. Residual rhoticity and emergent r-sandhi in the north-west and south-west of England: Different approaches to hiatus-resolution?; William Barras
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