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By taking a closer look at the regional, social and functional variation of English in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, the seminar derives certain forms of current English from traditional dialects and discusses more recent factors shaping modern-type dialects. The seminar is intended to establish the details of the linguistic situations of the two countries, of their dialect regions and major cities, covering the endoglossic and the exoglossic situation of English. It deals with questions of norms and standard, sociolects and the unique problem of the 'right' accent. It is also concerned with mechanisms of linguistic change in general and dialect levelling in particular as well as the convergence of urban dialects and the speech of younger speakers. |
