Language in Context

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Language & Social Contexts - Sociolinguistics

Go to guide to English varieties of the British Isles.
Go to guide on language and gender.
Go to guide on language and occupation.
Go to guide on language and power.
Go to guide to language and technology.
Go to guide on pragmatics and speech acts.
Go to guide to researching dialect by Barrie Rhodes.
Go to guide on features of spoken English.
Go to paper on dialect levelling and received pronunciation by Paul Kerswill.
Discussion on Estuary English by P. Trudgill & P. Coggle.
Read J. Przedlacka on Estuary English and RP. (pdf)
J. Ryfa on Estuary English - a controversial issue? (pdf)
RP and Standard English by Paul Kerswill.

Professor John Wells

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Accents and Dialects of the UK

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Language in Context

Language & Social Contexts - Sociolinguistics

Professor John Wells

Professor of Phonetics

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