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Jonnie Robinson is a dialectologist and Lead Curator of Spoken English at the British Library. He has worked on two prestigious nationwide surveys of vernacular English: the Survey of English Dialects and BBC Voices. He co-curated the Library's 2010 exhibition, Evolving English: One Language, Many Voices and created the British Accents and Dialects website. His latest publication, A Thesarus of English Dialect and Slang (2021), documents lexical variation in England, Wales, and the Channel Islands.
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Voices of English: accent, dialect and identity in the UK
Voices of English: accent, dialect and identity in the UK
This talk explores varieties of British English illustrated by examples from the British Library’s sound archives. It introduces the Library’s collections of sound recordings of accents and dialects and explains how these can be used for research and in teaching and learning.
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PID 041/2022-2023
PID ID2022/085
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