Sociolinguistics in England (eBook)

Natalie Braber is Reader in Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Her research interests include language variation and identity in the East Midlands, perceptions of language in the region and studies around ‘pit talk’, language used by coal miners. She has published widely  on language variation in the East Midlands.Sandra Jansen is Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Paderborn, Germany. Her research focuses on language variation and change, with a specific interest in Cumbrian dialects and L2 varieties of English. She has published several journal articles and book chapters on language changes in the far north-west of England.

Chapter 1. Introduction; Sandra Jansen and Natalie BraberChapter 2. Urban literacies and processes of supralocalisation: a historical sociolinguistic perspective; Anita AuerChapter 3. Social change, linguistic change and sociolinguistic change in Received Pronunciation; Anne FabriciusChapter 4. The changing language of urban youth: a pilot study; Rob DrummondChapter 5. Stylisation and the dynamics of migration, ethnicity and class; Ben RamptonChapter 6. The perceptual dialectology of England; Chris MontgomeryChapter 7. Variation and change in British Sign Language in England; Adam Schembri, Rose Stamp, Jordan Fenlon and Kearsy CormierChapter 8. Language change and innovation in London: Multicultural London English; Sue Fox and Eivind TorgersenChapter 9. The effect of economic trajectory and speaker profile on life-span change: Evidence from stative possessives on Tyneside; Isabelle Buchstaller and Adam MearnsChapter 10. Pit talk in the East Midlands; Natalie Braber Chapter 11. Studying intonation in varieties of English: Gender and individual variation in Liverpool; Claire Nance, Sam Kirkham, Eve GroarkeChapter 12. Peripheral communities and innovation. Changes in the GOOSE vowel in a West Cumbrian town; Sandra JansenChapter 13. ‘Doing Cornishness’ in the English periphery: Embodying ideology through Anglo-Cornish dialect lexis; Rhys J. Sandow and Justyna A. RobinsonChapter 14. Residual rhoticity and emergent r-sandhi in the north-west and south-west of England: Different approaches to hiatus-resolution?; William Barras