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British urban accents are undergoing rapid and extensive changes. This text surveys the modern state of accents in Britain, looking in detail at some 15 accents from around Britain and introducing issues

An exploration of the macro-social aspects of sociolinguistics. It covers issues such as cross-cultural communication problems, the linguistic behaviour of bilingual speakers, language contact, the social psychology of language, sociolinguistic variation and

Volume 2 of this two-volume text looks first at patterns of language variation, how gender identities are accomplished through language, and the importance of gender in accounting for language behavior. It goes