Bücher der Reihe The English Language Series

English Accents and Dialects provides a unique introductory guide to the regional and social varieties of English spoken in the UK and Ireland.

Combining an academic perspective from linguistics and psychology with insights into everyday spelling mistakes, The English Writing System will interest students and teachers of linguistics, literature, the English language, psychology and education.

This text presents a history of English from the perspective of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, relating changes and at the same time providing a framework for corpus-based historical research. It covers social events in Britain and Europe, the colonies and the "aftermath of Empire".