A Description of Grammatical Features and their Variation in the Black Country Dialect
1st Edition
Published in March 2004
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Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-3-7965-1948-2 (ISBN)
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A Description of Grammatical Features and their Variation in the Black Country Dialect
This fascinating sociolinguistic study describes the grammatical features of the dialect spoken by inhabitants of the Black Country area in the West Midlands of England. Basing his work on extensive recorded samples of informants of all ages engaged in natural conversation, the author considers in his analysis which elements of the dialect are most common, which are disappearing from the dialect, and which vary most according to such factors as conversational topic, informants' age, or their social class. He concludes his study with a closer look at how and why informants code-switch between the dialect and Standard English
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International Cooper Series on English Language and Literature (ICSELL)
Series Editors: David John Allerton, Willy Elmer, Balz Engler, Hartwig Isernhagen
The International Cooper Series on English Language and Literature (which appeared from 1956 to 1990 under the title "Cooper Monographs"), usually known as ICSELL, is from 2001 onwards being published by Schwabe. The series is international both in the range of scholars represented in it and in the prominence given to comparative topics from linguistics and literary studies. It encompasses the English language in all its forms and aspects and all genres of literature throughout the English-speaking world. This gives due recognition to the international status of English, something that is particularly evident in Switzerland, and, most appropriately, it is the international nature of the English language that provides the topic for the first volume to appear at the new publishers (Perspectives on English as a World Language).The editors of ICSELL are the professors of English at the University of the city variously known as Basle, Basel and Bâle, and internationally situated on the Rhine at the junction of Switzerland, Germany and France.