Accents of English I: An Introduction

About this book

Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in diffeent places. Volume I provides a synthesizing introduction which shows how accents vary not only geographically but also with social class formality sex and age; and in volumes 2 and 3 the author examines in greater depth the various accents used by people who speak English as their mother tongue: the accents of the regions of England Wales Scotland and Ireland (volume 2) and of the USA Canada and West Indies Australia New Zealand South Africa India Black Africa and the Far East (volume 3). Each volume can be read independently and together they form a major scholarly survey of considerable originality which not only includes descriptions of hitherto neglected accents but also examines the implications for phonological theory.