Unequal outcomes in professional hiring for individuals from less privileged backgrounds
have been widely reported in England. Although accent is one of the most salient signals of …

Though research on the multiethnolect spoken in London—Multicultural London English
(MLE)—has described the social distribution of the variety, the stylistic potentials of MLE …

Forensic linguistics is at the cutting edge of the undercover policing of child sexual abuse on
the open internet and dark web, and language and identity is a fundamental part of this. The …

This article examines how voiceless th-stopping (eg ting for thing) is used by a group of
adolescents in Manchester, UK. The data come from an ethnographic project into the …

The study presented here is the first empirical investigation of attitudes towards Multicultural
London English (MLE), the multiethnolect spoken in England's main metropolis. An online …

The research presented here constitutes the first investigation of the standard language
ideology (SLI) in Great Britain that takes account of a multiethnolect–namely Multicultural …

For young people, the space of the drama classroom can be a space for deep learning as
they struggle across difference to create something together with common purpose …

Sociolinguistic research has demonstrated that 'urban contact dialects' tend to diffuse
beyond the speech communities in which they first emerge. However, no research has …

This paper is intended to provide an overview of the main lexical, grammar and discourse
features of the so-called Multicultural London English (MLE), a recent multiethnolect that can …

This paper presents a study of sociophonetic variation in the lateral approximant/l/in
Manchester, UK. We know little about how English laterals pattern sociolinguistically …