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This programme was originally broadcast in 1976 as part of the BBC Continuing Education radio series "You Said It". (Repeated in 1980). The speaker is Dr. Peter Trudgill from Reading Univ...ersity, author among other things of "Sociolinguistics" (Penguin 1974 ). He begins by stating that, to a linguist everybody has an accent, as "accent' is merely the way words are pronounced. If you pronounce words, you have an accent. He goes on to examine, in some detail and with the help of recordings from BBC Archives and other sources, the regional and class accents of English as it is spoken in England.
This programme was originally broadcast in 1976 as part of the BBC Continuing Education radio series "You Said It". (Repeated in 1980). The speaker is Dr. Peter Trudgill from Reading Univ...ersity, author among other things of "Sociolinguistics" (Penguin 1974 ). He begins by stating that, to a linguist everybody has an accent, as "accent' is merely the way words are pronounced. If you pronounce words, you have an accent. He goes on to examine, in some detail and with the help of recordings from BBC Archives and other sources, the regional and class accents of English as it is spoken in England.
| Module code and title: | E263, Language in use |
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| Item code: | E263; 01 |
| Recording date: | 1980-09-17 |
| First transmission date: | 22-02-1981 |
| Published: | 1981 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OUDA web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:18:22 |
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| Producer: | Meg Sheffield |
| Contributor: | Peter Trudgill |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Accent; Class Accents; Pronunciation; R.P.; Regional Accents |
| Master spool number: | TLN38950H970 |
| Production number: | TLN38950H970 |
| Available to public: | no |
