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English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles
 
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English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles (Paperback)

by Arthur Hughes (Author), Peter Trudgill (Author)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder Arnold; 3rd Revised edition edition (1 Mar 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340614455
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340614457
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.8 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 437,567 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Now in its third edition, this is an 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 stylistic differences. This is followed by a survey of the speech of 12 different areas of the British Isles. The third edition has been thoroughly revised, and includes a new chapter on "Received Pronunciation"(RP). After a general description of RP, the authors discuss various variations within RP, and consider some of the factors which account for this variation.

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Useful guide to the accents and dialects of Britain, 9 Jul 2002
By A Customer
This book describes regional variation in accents and dialects in Britain. It provides a brief description to ways of describing sounds, and then describes the language of several regions. I think it is essential to purchase the cassette that goes with the book - and what a pity that it is a cassette, rather than a CD. I think the book would be slightly heavy going unless you're quite familiar with the IPA notation. Also, I would have liked to have seen more accents covered - or at least more discussion of variation of accents within the region described. And no Hampshire! No highland Scots! No Manchester versus Leeds!
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential to Understand the Book, 7 Sep 2000
By Wang, Chao-Hong (Hualien Taiwan) - See all my reviews
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The tape is essential to understanding the book. As the book happens to be the most up to date reference for modern British dialects, buying one without the other is rather like buying one shoe!

Any one with a passing interest in language would love this tape + book. Would also be of use to actors researching accents.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Down to earth and to the point., 23 Jan 2002
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This book really is a star. Written by people who really know how difficult it can be to pinpoint accents and dialects, this book provides maps and diagrams showing their locations, and differing phonological features of areas. The terminology is easily understood, so much so that it was a pleasure to read, always a delight for any long suffering linguistics students. Very handy for quick reference I would recommend it.
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I am a teacher and this book was extremly helpful in my english lesson. The children had a good laugh at what some of the dialects were. All in all a very helpful book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A linguists perfect Christmas present!
Trudgill in a clear and interesting way guides us through the main dialects of the British Isles. The most up to date work on the subject, he covers modern urban speech as well as... Read more
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