Dialects: Second Edition(Language Workbooks Series)

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Author: Peter Trudgill

ISBN-10: 0415342635

ISBN-13: 9780415342636

Category: Linguistics & Semiotics

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Dialects introduces the many dialects of English spoken in the United Kingdom and reveals the key issues that dialectology engages with.

Using this bookvii1Studying English dialects12Posh and less posh dialects53English in many shapes and forms114Dialects - the old and the new175Dialect maps226What dialect maps can tell us297How dialect boundaries get to be where they are368Spot your dialect area409Present-tense verbs4510Different dialects, different grammar5011Dialect grammar - the old and the new5612Overdoing things60Further reading64Answers to exercises66Index75