English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles, Fifth Edition

Englsih Accents and Dialectsis an essential guide to the varieties of English spoken in Britain and Ireland today. Together with invaluable overviews of numerous regional accents and dialects, this fifth edition provides you with a set of diagnostic tools to help you identify Received Pronounciation as well as several major non-standard varieties of English. The main regional differences are followed by a survey of speech in over 20 areas of the UK and Ireland, audio samples of which are available online free for you to download. In this fifth edition, accent and dialect are discussed within the broader framework of language variation, including phonetic, phonological, grammatical, lexical, historical and stylistic differences. Thoroughly updated to include recent findings on London English, Aberdeen English and Liverpool English,Englsih Accents and Dialects, Fifth Editionalso contains: *New entries on Hull, Manchester, Carlisle, Middlesbrough, Southampton, West London, Lancashire and the Shetlands *Over 20 audio recordings free for you to download from www.hodderplus.com/linguistics *Additional exercises to accompany the new varieties and answers online *Even clearer maps *The latest International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) chart

Arthur Hughes is formerly Professor of Linguistics at the University of Reading, UK.

Peter Trugdill is Adjunct Professor of Sociolinguistics at Agder University, Norway. He is also Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University, Australia, Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at Fribourg University, Switzerland, and Honorary Professor of Sociolinguistics, UEA, Norwich, UK.

Dominic Watt is Senior Lecturer in Forensic Speech Science at the University of York, UK.