Varieties of English An Introduction to the Study of Language
This new edition of the best selling, topic-based introduction to spoken and written English, is now fully revised and expanded with over 50% more material. This practical volume provides a wide range of written texts and transcriptions of speech for comm
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VARIETIES OF ENGLISH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE
Second Edition Dennis Freeborn with Peter French and David Langford
!50th YEAR
M
MACMILLAN
© Dennis Freeborn 1986
© Dennis Freeborn, Peter French, David Langford 1993
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ISBN 978-1-349-22723-5 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-22723-5
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Contents
Contents of the cassette tape Symbols
ix X
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction to the second edition
xii
1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5
Variety, change, and the idea of correct English Good English A Letter to the Editor An Acceptability Test This is the six o'clock news- belt up! Is there a language trap?
1 1 3 9 18 19
2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6
Dialects and Standard English -the past How the English language was brought to Britain Britain before the English came The Vikings The Norman Conquest The establishment of Standard English How to analyse an historical text 2.6.1 Old English 2.6.2 Middle English 2.6.3 Early Modern English and Modern English
22 22 23 25 26 28 29 29 30 31
3 3.1 3.2 3.3
Dialects and Standard English -the present Standard English -a dialect Present-day dialectal forms Creole English 3.3.1 The Mango Tree 3.3.2 The Red Bird 3.3.3 Coming to England Pidgin English
39 39 40 51 52 54 55 56
3.4
v
Contents
4 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 5 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5
6 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4
7 7.1 7.2
7.3
vi
Regional accents anct Received Pronunciation The difference between accent and dialect Accent Boundaries of regional variation A framework for accent study 4.4.1 How to make a phonetic transcription Practical exercises in broad phonetic transcription A practical exercise in describing a regional accent Social evaluation of accents Accents and social variables
59 59 61 63 66 67 69 70 73 75
Spoken English and written English 76 Speech and writing as media for language 76 Making a transcription 77 Dialogue 1: making a model village 78 5.3.1
