English Dialects and Sociolects

Dafydd Gibbon

15 October 1996

Version of October 26, 1996

 
• Course announcement: English Dialects and Sociolects
  • Class introduction
• Term plan
• Reports on dialects
  • Instructions and overview
  • England: 31 October 1996
    • Cockney (Nadin Picker)
    • Cornwall (Ilona Müller)
    • Estuary English (Gesa Rottmann)
    • Geordie (Astrid Niehage)
    • Scouse (Claudia Feist)
    • Yorkshire (Sven Wenzel)
  • Celtic areas: 7 November 1996
    • Scots (Kerstin Kolditz, Monika Hoffmann)
    • Welsh English (Nico Thase)
    • Northern Ireland (Beatrice Mack)
    • Irish Republic (Morton Hunke, Andrea Schulz)
  • North America: 14 November 1996
    • U.S. Midwest (Thorsten Trippel)
    • U.S. Southern (Melanie Müller)
    • Canada (Verena Althoff)
  • Southern Hemisphere: 14 November 1996
    • South Africa (Michael Lehmann)
    • Ozzie (Bettina Korte, Carolin Groß)
    • Kiwi (Beate Jerrentrup)
• Language variation
  • General aspects
  • Tasks on language variation (for library and WWW research)
  • Language variety space
  • J. C. Wells' standard lexical sets for RP and GenAm
  • Sugggestions for tasks on variation in German
• Chronology of the history of English
• History of English: Maps and illustrations
  • Old English Dialects
  • Middle English dialects
  • Roman Britain
  • Distribution of the early Anglo-Saxon settlements
  • Continental homes of Germanic invaders in the fifth century
  • The Anglo-Saxon heptarchy
  • Approximate diocesan boundaries c. 750
  • Scandinavian settlements in England in the tenth century
  • English possessions in France during the reign of Henry II (1159-1189)
  • English in the world today
• References
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