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Dialects / Peter Trudgill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trudgill, Peter.
- Series:
- Language Workbooks
- Language workbooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Dialects--Great Britain.
- English language.
- English language--Dialects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (89 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <I>Dialects</I> introduces the many dialects of English spoken in the United Kingdom and reveals the key issues that dialectology engages with.
- Contents:
- DIALECTS; Copyright; CONTENTS; Using this book; 1 Studying English dialects; 2 Posh and less posh dialects; 3 English in many shapes and forms; 4 Dialects - the old and the new; 5 Dialect maps; 6 What dialect maps can tell us; 7 How dialect boundaries get to be where they are; 8 Spot your dialect area; 9 Present-tense verbs; 10 Different dialects, different grammar; 11 Dialect grammar - the old and the new; 12 Overdoing things; Further reading; Answers To Exercises; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [64]-65) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-29235-X
- 0-203-48174-7
- 1-280-29173-7
- 9786610291731
- 0-203-31460-3
- 9780203314609
- OCLC:
- 252761100
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