ENGLISH

The Southwest of England

By Martyn F. Wakelin

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1986
ISBN
9027247137, 9789027247131
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (21283985 bytes)
Series
Varieties of English Around the World
Pages
245\246
Time added
2017-04-09 13:30:18
Foreign Language Study & Reference;Instruction;ForLanguage & Grammar;Reference

Description

The volume consists of a substantial introduction, providing a geographical and historical outline of the area, an account of the origin of the area, an account of the origin of present-day southwestern speech varieties and a synopsis of their main features. This is followed by texts of three main types: brief selections from 17th to 19th century dialect writers, aimed at depicting characteristics of southwestern speech; longer 20th century texts – verse, dialogue in novels; transcripts from tapes from 1950 onwards of speakers of different ages and social backgrounds. A part of each transcript is also provided in phonetic notation.

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