Summary Details
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sum: varieties of English
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| Author: | Mario Cal Varela | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Sociolinguistics
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| Summary: |
Dear linguists, two weeks ago I posted a message asking for information about "general bibliographical references and/or samples of speech commercially available on tape, CD-ROM or via Internet for a university course on geographical, social and situational varieties of English". I thank all those people who sent their suggestions or showed any interest in the issue. Tej K. Bhatia's suggestion: >I am using American Tongues (available from New American Media > 212-925-5692 (fax) >in my sociolinguisitic course. SOme vlumes of the Story of ENglish might >also help you. Routledge London has a CD ROM of the English varieties, but >I have not have the opportunity to use it. Christine M. Babick's: >I bought one cassette tape from a commercial audiobook catalog that I > receive >quarterly. They sell two tapes you might be able to use, which are actually >for drama students who want to gain facility with American and British >English dialects and accents.They also include English spoken with >nonnative-speaker accents. Here's a description: >DIALECT MONOLOGUES, VOL 1: Texan, Irish, British, French, New York, Boston, >Mountain Southern (American), Chicago, German, Yiddish, Spanish, Italian, > and >Cockney. L6X913a 1 cassette and booklet $19.95 > >DIALECT MONOLOGUES, VOL 2: Black African, Northern Irish, English South >African, Welsh, Cajun, Canadian, Afrikaans, Liverpudlian, Asian Indian, >Hebrew, New England, Australian, Russian, and Scottish. L5X927a 1 cass. >and booklet $19.95 > >Order from: Audio Editions, Books on Cassette, P.O. Box 6930, Auburn, >California, 95604, USA tele: 800-231-4261 or fax: 800-882-1840 >These are toll-free numbers when dialed within the USA---I don't know if you >can use it. >Here's e mail: bookaudio@aol.com >When ordering, use the item numbers listed above. Gisle Andersen's: >You might want to know that we have got a 500,000 word corpus of the spoken >English of London teenagers. This will be launched on CD-ROM this spring. >At present you can view the texts at http://www.hd.uib.no/colt/ which also >contains more info about this corpus project. Thanks also to Richard Firsten, who's given me a contact at Florida International University (any further information derived from this will also be posted to the list); Celso Alvarez C=E1ccamo, who maintains an interesting page on code-switching in conversation (http://www.udc.es/dep/lx/cac/c-s); and Richard Dury and Marc Fryd. Mario Cal Varela Departamento de Filolox=EDa Inglesa e Alemana, despacho 307 Facultade de Filolox=EDa Universidade de Santiago de Compostela c/ Burgo das Naci=F3ns s/n Santiago 15705 ESPA=D1A tlf (981) 563100 ext. 11858 fax (981) 574646 |
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| LL Issue: | 8.156 | |
| Date Posted: | 01-Feb-1997 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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