num_pages: 160
description: 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 stylisticdifferences. 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 interviews (all transcribed in the book) with speakers from each of the different areas. The third edition has been thoroughly revisedand includes an entirely new chapter on Received Pronunciation. The cassette now includes recordings of three different varieties of RP speech. Entirely new sections, with corresponding recordings, have been added on Lowland Scots, Devon and Dublin speech.
language: English
title: English Accents and Dialects : An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles
titlecomplete: English Accents and Dialects : An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles (cassette sold separately)
genres: Linguistics, British Literature, Nonfiction, Language
ratings_count: 74
series: The English Language
publisher: Hodder Education Publishers