Dialects [electronic resource] / Peter Trudgill.
Dialects introduces the many dialects of English spoken in the United Kingdom and reveals the key issues that dialectology engages with.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2004.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Language workbooks.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.