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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2024

Edited by
Susan Fox
Susan Fox
Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Switzerland

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Language in Britain and Ireland , pp. v - vii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

Contents

  1. List of Figures

  2. List of Tables

  3. List of Contributors

  4. Acknowledgements

  5. Map of Britain and Ireland

  6. Introduction

    Susan Fox

  7. Part IEnglish

    1. 1The History of English

      Anita Auer

    2. 2Standard and Non-standard English

      Stephen Levey

    3. 3Phonetic and Phonological Variation in England

      Gerard Docherty, Paul Foulkes and Paul Kerswill

    4. 4Grammatical Variation in England

      David Britain

    5. 5Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in England

      Heike Pichler and Jenny Cheshire

    6. 6Scots and Scottish Standard English

      Jennifer Smith, Jane Stuart-Smith, Rachel Macdonald and E Jamieson

    7. 7English in Ireland

      Karen P. Corrigan

    8. 8English in Wales

      Heli Paulasto

    9. 9Insular Varieties of English in Britain

      1. 9.AChannel Islands

        Anna Rosen

      2. 9.BThe Isles of Scilly

        Emma Moore

      3. 9.CMersea Island

        Jenny Amos

      4. 9.DThe Orkney and Shetland Isles

        Jennifer Smith and Mercedes Durham

  8. Part IIMultilingualism in Britain and Ireland: The Celtic Languages

    1. 10The History of the Celtic Languages in Britain and Ireland

      Paul Russell

    2. 11Scottish Gaelic

      Claire Nance

    3. 12Irish Gaelic

      Aidan Doyle

    4. 13Welsh

      David Willis

    5. 14Cornish and Manx

      Merryn Davies-Deacon and Dave Sayers

  9. Part IIIMultilingualism in Britain and Ireland: Minority Languages

    1. 15Channel Islands French

      Mari C. Jones

    2. 16South Asian Languages

      Devyani Sharma

    3. 17Chinese

      Li Wei

    4. 18Yiddish

      Ruth Kircher

    5. 19European Immigrant Languages

      Petros Karatsareas

    6. 20Sign Languages in Britain and Ireland

      Adam Schembri, Kate Rowley and Lorraine Leeson

  10. Part IVMultilingualism: The Development of Urban Contact Varieties

    1. 21Multicultural London English

      Susan Fox

    2. 22British Asian English

      Devyani Sharma and Jessica Wormald

    3. 23Multicultural British English

      Rob Drummond

  11. Part VApplied Sociolinguistic Issues

    1. 24Language Policy and Planning in Britain and Ireland

      Dave Sayers and Leanne Henderson

    2. 25‘Non-standard’ English and Education

      Julia Snell

    3. 26Education, England and Users of Languages Other than English

      Ben Rampton, Constant Leung and Melanie Cooke

  12. Index

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  • Edited by Susan Fox, Universität Bern, Switzerland
  • Book: Language in Britain and Ireland
  • Online publication: 17 October 2024
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