David Britain
List of John Benjamins publications in which David Britain is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0172-8865 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9730
Book series
Title
Social Dialectology: In honour of Peter Trudgill
Edited by David Britain and Jenny Cheshire
The time-honoured study of dialects took a new turn some forty years ago, giving centre stage to social factors and the quantitative analysis of language variation and change. It has become a discipline that no scholar of language can afford to ignore. This collection identifies the main… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 16] 2003. x, 344 pp.
2021 Counterurbanisation, dialect contact and the levelling of non-salient traditional dialect variants: The case of the front short vowels in Eastern England Urban Matters: Current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics, Ziegler, Arne, Stefanie Edler and Georg Oberdorfer (eds.), pp. 89–118 | Chapter
Earlier investigations of the linguistic consequences of mobility in largely rural East Anglia in Eastern England showed a quite dramatic decline in the use of the salient traditional dialect variants. In this chapter, we present a variationist sociolinguistic analysis of a relatively unsalient… read more
2019 Chapter 12. Quotative variation in Bernese Swiss German Language Variation - European Perspectives VII: Selected papers from the Ninth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 9), Malaga, June 2017, Villena-Ponsoda, Juan-Andrés, Francisco Díaz Montesinos, Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz and Matilde Vida-Castro (eds.), pp. 191–202 | Chapter
Whilst there have been a multitude of variationist studies on the changing quotative system of English, especially the diffusion of innovative be like (e.g. Tagliamonte and Hudson 1999; Buchstaller and D’Arcy 2009), work on the quotative systems of other languages (see Buchstaller and Van Alphen… read more
2016 Accommodation, dialect contact and grammatical variation: Verbs of obligation in the Anglophone community in Japan New Approaches to English Linguistics: Building bridges, Timofeeva, Olga, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja and Sarah Chevalier (eds.), pp. 13–33 | Chapter
The present study investigates dialect contact and linguistic accommodation in the use of verbs expressing obligation (such as MUST, HAVE GOT TO, HAVE TO and GOT TO) among native speakers of English resident in Japan, using a social network approach. Approximately 500 tokens were extracted from… read more
2015 Between North and South: The Fenland Researching Northern English, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 417–436 | Article
This chapter presents both a brief diachronic and a more substantial synchronic contemporary snapshot of an area of the country – the Fenland of the East Midlands and East Anglia – where dialects of the North of England border those of the south. The area is important for a number of reasons:… read more
2007 Daniel Schreier. 2005. Consonant Change in English Worldwide: Synchrony Meets Diachrony English World-Wide 28:3, pp. 332–339 | Miscellaneous
2003 Exploring the importance of the outlier in sociolinguistic dialectology Social Dialectology: In honour of Peter Trudgill, Britain, David and Jenny Cheshire (eds.), pp. 191–208 | Article
2003 Introduction Social Dialectology: In honour of Peter Trudgill, Britain, David and Jenny Cheshire (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
2001 Review of Foulkes & Docherty (1999): Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles English World-Wide 22:1, pp. 121–128 | Review
2000
9. As far as analysing grammatical variation and change in New Zealand English with very few tokens <is concerned/ø>
New Zealand English, Bell, Allan and Koenraad Kuiper (eds.), pp. 198–220 | Article2000 7. Intonation and prosody in New Zealand English New Zealand English, Bell, Allan and Koenraad Kuiper (eds.), pp. 146–172 | Article