The second edition of this distinguished textbook introduces undergraduates to the
concepts, terminology and representations needed for an understanding of how English is …

Names: Tusting, Karin, 1973–editor. Title: The Routledge handbook of linguistic
ethnography/edited by Karin Tusting. Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York …

'Regional dialect levelling'or 'supralocalisation'are terms referring to the process by which,
as a result of mobility and dialect contact, linguistic variants with a wider sociospatial …

Language and Identity in Englishes examines the core issues and debates surrounding the
relationship between English, language and identity. Drawing on a range of international …

This is a new volume in the Dialects of English series-a series of short, accessible but
authoritative books on specific dialect varieties, each written by a specialist or specialists …

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 …

How flexible is an individual's accent during adulthood, and how does this flexibility relate to
longer-term change? Previous work has found that accents are remarkably flexible in …

The concept of identity has attracted significant academic attention. This article unpacks
what constitutes the Scouse identity, how it is constructed and its different dimensions, with …

This study analyses the time-varying acoustics of laterals and their adjacent vowels in
Manchester and Liverpool English. Generalized additive mixed-models (GAMMs) are used …

Phonetic aspects of many languages have been documented, though the breadth and focus
of such documentation varies substantially. In this survey, phonetic aspects (here called …