TY  - BOOK
AU  - Upton,Clive
AU  - Davies,Bethan L.
TI  - Analysing twenty-first Century British English: Conceptual and methodological aspects of the Voices project 
SN  - 9780415694438 (pbk.)
U1  - 427.94109051 22
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York
PB  - Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - British Broadcasting Corporation
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - English language
KW  - Dialects
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Variation
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Phonology
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - HHUUEENN
KW  - November2019
KW  - Reading book
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "The Voices project of the British Broadcasting Corporation, a recent high-profile media investigation, gathered contemporary English dialect samples from all over the UK and invited contributions from the public to a dedicated website. This book explores both issues of ideology and representation behind the media project and uses to which the emerging data can be put in the study of language variation and change. Two lead-in chapters, written from the complementary perspectives of a broadcast media specialist, Simon Elmes, and an academic linguist, David Crystal, set the project in the BBC's historical, social, and linguistic contexts. Following these, authorities in a range of specialisms concerned with uses and representations of language varieties address various aspects of the project's potential, in three broad sections: Linguistic explorations of the representations of language and the debates on language evoked by the data. ; The linguistic product of the project, including lexical, phonological, and grammatical investigations. ; Technical aspects of creating maps from the large electronic Voices database. An interactive companion website provides the means to access, explore, and make use of raw linguistic data, along with interpretive maps created from it, all accompanied by full explanations. Analysing 21st Century British English brings together key research and is essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students and researchers working in the areas of language variation, dialect and sociolinguistics."
ER  -