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Variation in an English Dialect - A Sociolinguistic Study (Paperback)
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Variation in an English Dialect - A Sociolinguistic Study (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
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Dr Cheshire's fieldwork concentrates on phonological variation in
spontaneous everyday conversation. She interviews a group of
non-standard English speakers living in Reading, Berkshire. Her
data provides a basis for a perceptive analysis of variation in
contemporary English and of the nature and function of variation in
general. She specifically focuses on morphological and syntactic
variation, and thus also provides a valid description between
standard English and a variety used by working-class speakers,
which will interest not only linguists including sociolinguists and
dialectologists, but many workers in education. Linguistic and
social constraints on variation are established, and the analysis
also demonstrates how speakers are able to exploit the resources of
the language system to convey social meaning. The data Dr Cheshire
has collected are in themselves an important contribution to the
study of language in its social context, whilst the analysis has
significant theoretical implications for diachronic and synchronic
linguistics.
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