The New Cockney

New Ethnicities and Adolescent Speech in the Traditional East End of London
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-230-20355-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 247 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4336 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fox, S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The Social and Historical Context 2. Methodological Issues 3. The PRICE Variable 4. The FACE Variable5. Allomorphic Variation in the English Article System 6. The Qualitative Analysis 7. The 'New' Cockney Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

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.