Accents of English

Accents of English

Einband:
Kartonierter Einband
EAN:
9780521297196
Untertitel:
An Introduction
Autor:
John C. Wells
Herausgeber:
Cambridge University Press
Anzahl Seiten:
300
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.05.1982
ISBN:
0521297192

This text is about the way English is pronounced by different people in different places. Volume I provides a synthesizing introduction, which shows how accents vary not only geographically, but also with social class, formality, sex and age.

Klappentext
Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in different places.

Inhalt
Volume I: An Introduction: Preface; Typographical conventions and phonetic symbols; Part I. Aspects of Accent: 1. Linguistic and social variability; 2. Accent phonology; 3. How accents differ; 4. Why accents differ; Part II. Sets and Systems: 5. The reference accents; 6. Standard lexical sets; 7. Systems: a typology; Part III. Developments and Processes: 8. Residualisms; 9. British prestige innovations; 10. Some American innovations; 11. Some further British innovations; Sources and further reading; References; Index.


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