Bøger af Jenny Cheshire

Dr Cheshire interviews a group of non-standard English speakers living in Reading, Berkshire. She concentrates on phonological variation in spontaneous everyday conversation. She specifically focuses on morphological and syntactic variation that contributes to the study of language in its social context. This study will interest sociolinguists, dialectologists and workers in education.

This text examines the differences between "standard" and "nonstandard" (or colloquial) varieties of Dutch, French, English, Finnish, Galician, German and Spanish. It looks at syntax, dialects, and spoken colloquial varieties of language, which is acknowledged as an area of growing interest.