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Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Variety, change, and the idea of correct English....Pages 1-21 Dialects and Standard English — the past....Pages 22-40 Dialects and Standard English — the present....Pages 41-63 Regional accents and Received Pronunciation....Pages 64-85 Spoken English and written English....Pages 86-101 Learning to talk....Pages 102-125 Variety and style in spoken English....Pages 126-151 Variety and style in written English — I. Reporting the news....Pages 152-181 Variety and style in written English — II. The language of literature....Pages 182-211 Back Matter....Pages 212-222
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Dennis Freeborn, Peter French, David Langford (auth.)
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK : Imprint : Palgrave
- Published
- 1986
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781349181346
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Language Learning, Linguistics
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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