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Joan C. Beal is Professor of English Language and Director of the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests are in dialectology and the recent history of English.
Language and Region:
• provides an accessible guide to regional variation in English
• covers topical issues including loss of regional diversity and attitudes to regional accents and dialects
• examines the use of dialect in media, advertising and the tourist industry
• outlines the main linguistic characteristics of regional accents and dialects in terms of regional pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.
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