Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles

Author	Paul Foulkes , Gerard J. Docherty
Format	Softcover
ISBN	9780340706084
Publisher	Hodder Arnold
Manufacturer	Hodder Arnold

This text surveys the modern state of accents in Britain, looking in detail at some 15 accents from around Britain. It introduces issues at the forefront of ongoing work in theoretical sociolinguistics and descriptive dialectology.

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 at the forefront of ongoing work in theoretical sociolinguistics and descriptive dialectology.