S. Fox

Gebundenes Buch

The New Cockney

New Ethnicities and Adolescent Speech in the Traditional East End of London

Beschreibung

The New Cockney provides a sociolinguistic account of speech variation among adolescents in the 'traditional' East End of London. Embedded in its social context, it focuses on the interaction and social practices within a single community and highlights some of the possible mechanisms for language change.

Autor

Susan Fox is a Researcher in Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She specialises in variationist sociolinguistics, and is principally interested in language variation and change, using both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis. Her research work has focused mainly on the social and historical contexts that have led to the variety of English that is spoken in London today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-20355-6
• 2015 edition
• Seitenzahl: 247
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780230203556
• ISBN-10: 0230203558
• Artikelnr.: 29921398