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Combines personal reflections, historical allusions, and traveler's observations about the author's encounters with language and its users throughout the English-speaking world. David Crystal has been described by The Times Higher Education Supplement as a "latter-day Samuel Johnson." Now in a delightfully decisive journey through the groves and thickets of the English language, he combines personal reflections, historical allusions, and traveler'...

Instruction for the actor in imitating the Japanese, Brooklyn, American Southern, standard English, Cockney, Irish, Scots, French, Italian, German, and Russian dialects and/or accents.

Vol. 2- published by Cliff's Notes, Lincoln, Neb.

A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities. Online index is at http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/18.

Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in different places. Volume I provides a synthesizing introduction, which shows how accents vary not only geographically, but also with social class, formality, sex and age; and in volumes 2 and 3 the author examines in greater depth the various accents used by people who speak English as their mother tongue: the accents of the regions of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland...

Essays explore dialects in the classroom and the link between language and identity and language and cultural conflict.

"This volume gives a detailed overview of the varieties of English spoken on the British Isles, including lesser-known varieties such as those spoken in Orkney and Shetland and the Channel Islands. The chapters provide information on the phonological, morphological and syntactic characteristics of each variety discussed. The articles are followed by exercises and study questions."--Jacket.