Contents
Introduction: ‘Place’ in Studies of Language Variation and Change
1Changing Places: Tracking Innovation and Obsolescence across Generations
2Changing Sounds in a Changing City: An Acoustic Phonetic Investigation of Real-Time Change over a Century of Glaswegian
3Local vs. Supralocal: Preserving Language and Identity in Newfoundland
4Variation and Change in the Realisation of /r/ in an Isolated Northumbrian Dialect
10‘I Stole It from a Letter, off Your Tongue It Rolled.’ The Performance of Dialect in Glasgow’s Indie Music Scene
11Where the Black Country Meets ‘Black Barnsley’: Dialect Variation and Identity in an Ex-Mining Community of Barnsley
12‘The Land Steward Wouldn’t Have a Woman Farmer’: The Interaction between Language, Life Trajectory and Gender in an Island Community
13Characterological Figures and Expressive Style in the Enregisterment of Linguistic Variety
14Enregisterment, Indexicality and the Social Meaning of Howay: Dialect and Identity in North-East England
16‘Turtlely Amazing’: The Enregisterment of “Yorkshire” Dialect and the Possibility of GOAT Fronting as a Newly Enregistered Feature