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BL
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957402
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b711772
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| Title & Author
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Language in the British Isles /\ edited by David Britain.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press,, 2007.
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1 online resource (xii, 508 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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0511620780
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: 1107315964
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: 110731691X
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: 1107321352
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: 9780511620782
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: 9781107315969
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: 9781107316911
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: 9781107321359
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0521791502
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0521794889
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9780521791502
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9780521794886
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 436-498) and index.
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| Contents
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The history of English / James Milroy -- Standard and non-standard English / Paul Kerswill -- Phonological variation in England / Paul Foulkes and Gerard Docherty -- Grammatical variation in England / David Britain -- Scottish English and Scots / Paul A. Johnston Jr. -- Northern Irish English / Kevin McCafferty -- Southern Irish English / Raymond Hickey -- English in Wales / Robert Penhallurick -- English on the Isle of Man / Andrew Hamer -- English in the Channel Islands / Heinrich Ramisch -- The history of the Celtic languages in the British Isles / Paul Russell -- Gaelic / Kenneth MacKinnon -- Irish / Pádraig Ó Riagáin -- Welsh / Martin Ball -- Multilingualism / Mark Gibson -- Caribbean creoles and Black English / Mark Sebba -- Indic languages / Mike Reynolds and Mahendra Verma -- Chinese / Li Wei -- European immigrant languages / Penelope Gardner-Chloros -- Sign languages / Bencie Woll and Rachel Sutton-Spence -- Channel Island French / Mari C. Jones -- Angloromani / Peter Bakker and Donald Kenrick -- Language policy and planning / Dennis Ager -- Non-standard English and education / Ann Williams -- Education and speakers of languages other than English / Ben Rampton, Roxy Harris and Constant Leung.
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| Abstract
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Provides a comprehensive survey of the dominant languages and dialects used in the British Isles.
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Sociolinguistics-- British Isles.
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Engelska språket-- dialekter-- Storbritannien.
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Language and languages.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Alphabets Writing Systems.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Sprache
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British Isles, Languages.
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Britische Inseln
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Europe, British Isles.
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| Dewey Classification
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409.41
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| LC Classification
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P381.G7L36 2007eb
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| NLM classification
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HF 100rvk
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HF 500rvk
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| Added Entry
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Britain, David.
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