Analysing twenty-first century British English [electronic resource] : conceptual and methodological aspects of the Voices project / edited by Clive Upton and Bethan L. Davies.
Material type: TextPublication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.Description: xi, 225 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 9780203512913 (e-book : PDF)
- English language -- Dialects -- Great Britain
- English language -- Variation -- Great Britain
- English language -- Great Britain -- Discourse analysis
- English language -- Great Britain -- Phonology
- English language -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
- Great Britain -- Languages
- English language -- Syntax
- British Broadcasting Corporation -- History -- 21st century
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Voices : a unique BBC adventure / Simon Elmes -- 2. Voices : a case study in the evolution of a linguistic climate at the BBC / David Crystal -- 3. Constructions of expertise and authority on a language-themed discussion forum : linguists, linguistics and the public / Bethan L. Davies -- 4. Diverse voices, public broadcasts : sociolinguistic representations in mainstream programming / Alexandra Jaffe -- 5. Afrikaans is bobaas : linguistic citizenship on the BBC Voices website / Tommaso M. Milani and Mooniq Shaikjee -- 6. Language ideology and conversationalized interactivity in Voices / Will Turner -- 7. Mapping the word : local vocabulary and its themes / Susie Dent -- 8. Voices in Wales : a new national survey / Rob Penhallurick -- 9. Voices of the UK : the British Library description of the BBC Voices recordings collection / Jonathan Robinson, Jon Herring and Holly Gilbert -- 10. Focus on Voices in Northeast England / Ann Thompson -- 11. Blurred boundaries : the dialect word from the BBC / Clive Upton -- 12. Voices dialectometry at the University of Sheffield / John Holliday -- 13. Voices dialectometry at the University of Groningen / Martijn Wieling.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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