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English Language

English Language

Description, Variation and Context

Second Edition

Jonathan Culpeper

Paul Kerswill

Ruth Wodak

Tony McEnery

Francis Katamba

Jonathan Culpeper, Paul Kerswill, Ruth Wodak, Tony McEnery and Francis Katamba 2009, 2018

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Contents

Jonathan Culpeper, Ruth Wodak and Paul Kerswill

Edited by Jonathan Culpeper

Kevin Watson

Sam Kirkham and Claire Nance

Francis Katamba

Geoffrey Leech

Geoffrey Leech

Geoffrey Leech

Paul Chilton and Christopher Hart

Danil Van Olmen and Panos Athanasopoulos

Jonathan Culpeper and Gila A. Schauer

Edited by Jonathan Culpeper

Paul Kerswill and Jonathan Culpeper

Jonathan Culpeper and Dawn Archer

Francis Katamba and Paul Kerswill

Sebastian Hoffmann

Willem B. Hollmann

Willem B. Hollmann

Edited by Paul Kerswill

Kevin Watson

Paul Kerswill

Arfaan Khan

Mark Sebba

Mark Sebba and Luke Harding

Johann W. Unger

Edited by Jonathan Culpeper

Andrew Wilson

Elena Semino

Greg Myers

Mick Short

David Barton and Karin Tusting

Uta Papen

Edited by Ruth Wodak

Greg Myers

Norman Fairclough

Jonathan Culpeper and Claire Hardaker

Jane Sunderland

Paul Baker

Tony McEnery and Robbie Love

Ruth Wodak

Veronika Koller

Edited by Jonathan Culpeper

Andrew Hardie and Silke Brandt

Roz Ivani and Diane Potts

Martin Bygate

Edited by Jonathan Culpeper

Vaclav Brezina and Dana Gablasova

Tineke Brunfaut and Alison Sealey

Preface to the Second Edition

Further editions are a wonderful opportunity an opportunity to make things even better than they were the first time around. In this task, we have been assisted by feedback from generations of students and also a bevy of conscien-tious reviewers. I cannot thank them enough. This second edition preserves the key features of the first: a particular vision about what the study of the English language encompasses; accessibility for first year undergraduate readers upwards; an infusion of cutting edge research; and attention to fields of enquiry that have come to prominence in only recent decades. We have been able to boost quality by making innumerable additions, and even in some cases rewriting entire chapters. Moreover, we have plugged some holes observed in the first edition. Foremost among these was the deficit regarding methods. Hence, in this second edition, two chapters are devoted specifically to that.

Regarding people, we have enriched the volume further with new expertise from the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. New chapter authors include (in order of appearance): Sam Kirkham, Claire Nance, Christopher Hart, Danil Van Olmen, Panos Athanasopoulos, Luke Harding, Johnny Unger, Karin Tusting, Claire Hardaker, Robbie Love, Silke Brandt, Diane Potts, Vaclav Brezina, Dana Gablasova, Alison Sealey and Tineke Brunfaut. The editorial team has changed too. I have led the entire enterprise. Ruth Wodak and Paul Kerswill continued to edit their original sections, and of course revised the chapters which they had written or co-written. The others, Tony McEnery and Francis Katamba, stepped down as editors of this second edition, though I retained their names on the cover in recognition of their contribution to the first edition. John Heywood, who played a part in tidying up the bibliography of the first edition, has acted as a trusty assistant, deploying his eagle-eyes in spotting micro problems in various chapters and culling items from the chapters to bolster the index. Finally I would like to thank Paul Stevens for his enthusiasm for this second edition (in fact, it had been his idea), Cathy Scott for helping smooth the journey towards its publication, and Georgia Park for her super-efficient and helpful oversight of the closing production phase.

J ONATHAN C ULPEPER

Lancaster University, 2017

Acknowledgements

The authors and publisher wish to thank the following for permission to use copyright material:

Blackwell Publishing Ltd., for the figure Regional Varieties of English in The Dialects of England, 2nd edition, by Peter Trudgill (Blackwell: Oxford, 1999).

Brad Shorr and Word Sell Inc., for the cartoon Fire Hydrant and Mailbox Word Sell Inc./ Brad Shorr.

British Museum, for an image of The Franks Casket British Museum.

Cambridge University Press, for permission to use the following tables and figures: The Phases of the GVS from Phonology and morphology by Roger Lass, in A History of the English Language, edited by Richard Hogg and David Denison (2006); Vowels in Received Pronunciation, Popular London and Cockney showing the Diphthong Shift in Cockney and Wellss (1982) lexical sets in Accents of English, by John C. Wells (1982); The Variable by Class and Style in Norwich in The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich, by Peter Trudgill (1974); from J. Cheshire, P. Kerswill and A. Williams, Phonology, grammar and discourse in dialect convergence, in Dialect Change: Convergence and Divergence in European Languages, edited by Peter Auer, Frans Kinskens and Paul Kerswill (2005).

Carcanet Press Ltd., for the poem Flying Crooked, by Robert Graves, in Complete Poems in One Volume, edited by Patrick Quinn (Carcanet Poetry, 2000).

Fallon London and Skoda Auto UK, for kind permission to reproduce the text of the advertisement The Climb (Director: Martin Krejci, Writer: Emma Thomas and Agency: Fallon London, 2017).

Getty/ Pool Interagences, for the image Leaders from the European Union (EU) and Mediterranean States are Gathering in the Spanish City of Barcelona on Sunday for a Two-Day Euromed Summit in Barcelona, Spain on November 28 2005.