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West Midlands English [electronic resource] : Birmingham and the Black Country / Urszula Clark and Esther Asprey

Author:
Clark, Urszula
Additional Titles:
Birmingham and the Black Country
Published:
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 170 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators:
Asprey, Esther
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Geography, Demography, Culture and Research Design -- 1.1.Introduction -- 1.2.The Geographical Limits of the west Midlands: Where does it begin and where does it end? -- 1.3.The Demographic Make-up of the West Midlands across Time -- 1.4.An Introduction to the Language Varieties of Birmingham and the Black Country -- 1.5.Birmingham and the Black Country: Language, Culture and Identity -- 1.6.Researching Birmingham and Black Country Dialects -- 1.7.Conclusion -- 2.Phonetics and Phonology -- 2.1.Overview -- 2.2.Short Vowels -- 2.3.Long Vowels -- 2.4.Diphthongs -- 2.5.Unstressed Vowels -- 2.6.Consonant Phonology: An Overview -- 2.7.Stops -- 2.8.Nasals -- 2.9.Fricatives -- 2.10.Approximants -- 2.11.Conclusion -- 3.Grammar -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Numerals and Determiners -- 3.3.Nouns -- 3.4.Pronouns -- 3.5.Adjectives and Adverbs -- 3.6.Prepositions -- 3.7.Conjunctions -- 3.8.Main Verb Systems in Birmingham and the Black Country: Regularisation -- 3.9.More about Aspect and Mood -- 3.10.Conclusion -- 4.Lexis -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.The Survey of Regional English (SuRE) and Sense Relations Networks (SRNs) -- 4.3.The West Midlands Dialect Project -- 4.4.Language and Place: Birmingham and Language, Performance and Region --- Discourse and Sociocultural Identity in the Black Country -- 4.5.Conclusion -- 5.Survey of Previous Works and Bibliography -- 5.1.An Overview of Linguistic Research Concerning Birmingham and Black Country English -- 5.2.Literary, Folk and other Collections -- 5.3.Works Cited in this Chapter and the Book as a Whole -- 6.Annotated Texts.
Summary:
This volume focuses on the closely allied yet differing linguistic varieties of Birmingham and its immediate neighbour to the west, the industrial heartland of the Black Country. It provides a clear description of the structure of the linguistic varieties spoken in the two areas.
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ISBN:
9780748685806 (electronic bk.)
0748685804 (electronic bk.)
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AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-156) and index.
Technical Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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