The Southwest of England.
The volume consists of a substantial introduction, providing a geographical and historical outline of the area, an account of the origin of the area, an account of the origin of present-day southwestern speech varieties and a synopsis of their main features. This is followed by texts of three main t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
John Benjamins Pub. Co.
1986.
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Colección: | Varieties of English around the world. Text series ;
v. 5. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The volume consists of a substantial introduction, providing a geographical and historical outline of the area, an account of the origin of the area, an account of the origin of present-day southwestern speech varieties and a synopsis of their main features. This is followed by texts of three main types: brief selections from 17th to 19th century dialect writers, aimed at depicting characteristics of southwestern speech; longer 20th century texts - verse, dialogue in novels; transcripts from tapes from 1950 onwards of speakers of different ages and social backgrounds. A part of each transcript is also provided in phonetic notation. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (243 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9786613358943 6613358940 1283358948 9781283358941 9789027279125 9027279128 |
ISSN: | 0172-7362 ; |