This volume will provide a comprehensive yet accessible description
of East Midlands English, an area of neglect in linguistic
research. Existing publications, which aggregate the findings of
earlier surveys and more recent localised studies presenting an
overview of regional speech in the UK, are either lacking
up-to-date research data from the East Midlands or simply ignore
the region. A coordinated survey of dialects of the East Midlands
was part of the Survey of English Dialects (SED) in the 1950s. This
data is now over sixty years old and focuses almost exclusively on
broad rural dialect speakers. This book will fill the knowledge and
literature gaps by comparing vernacular speech in different urban
and rural locations in the East Midlands, and examining whether the
East Midlands is a 'transition zone' between the North and South.
Recordings held by the British Library will be used, and will be
supplemented with recordings made with local speakers. Language in
the East Midlands is distinctive and there is considerable regional
variety, for instance, between speech in the major urban centres of
Nottingham, Derby and Leicester. Bringing out this regional
variation will also improve our wider understanding of language
variation in English. The concept of the East Midlands in itself is
not a clear one, and this volume aims to address such issues and to
examine what makes the East Midlands an area of itself and what
this area includes.
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