Accents of English: Volume 1 by John C Wells

Accents of English: Volume 1 by John C Wells

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Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in different places. It looks at how accents vary not only geographically, but also with social class, formality, sex and age, and examines the various accents of English speakers throughout the UK and other English-speaking countries.

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Accents of English: Volume 1 by John C Wells

Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in diffeent 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 (volume 2), and of the USA, Canada, and West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Black Africa and the Far East (volume 3). Each volume can be read independently, and together they form a major scholarly survey of considerable originality, which not only includes descriptions of hitherto neglected accents, but also examines the implications for phonological theory.
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ISBN 13 9780521297196
ISBN 10 0521297192
Title Accents of English: Volume 1
Author John C Wells
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 1982-04-08
Number of pages 300
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