Browsing by Author "Trudgill, Peter"
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Item Received pronunciation: Sociolinguistic aspects(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2001) Trudgill, PeterItem “Short o” in East Anglia and New England(Adam Mickiewicz University, 1998) Trudgill, PeterItem The East Anglian dialect of English in the world(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2021) Trudgill, PeterIn the 17th century, the English region of East Anglia contained many of the major population centres of the British Isles, not least Norwich, England’s second city at that time. One might therefore predict that East Anglian dialects of English would have played a major role in determining the nature of the new colonial Englishes which were first beginning to emerge during this period. This paper considers some of the phonological and grammatical features of East Anglian English which can be argued to have been influential in this way.Item The historical sociolinguistics of elite accent change: On why RP is not disappearing(Adam Mickiewicz University, 2008) Trudgill, PeterThere is a perception common in the UK today, especially amongst journalists, that the RP accent is disappearing: for example, Public School pupils and younger members of the Royal Family are now often said to be speaking Cockney instead of RP. This claim is totally erroneous, but it is possible to point to a number of factors which can account for this perception. This paper attempts to elucidate what these factors are; and it uses evidence from the history of English to argue that the linguistic events currently affecting RP are sociolinguistically nothing new or modern, and indeed are the result of sociolinguistically inevitable processes of diffusion and change which have persisted for very many generations.