Evolving English: Linguistics at the Library Podcast

Episode 5

This week is a bumper episode because Andrew and Rowan are joined by Rosy Hall, who completed her PhD placement at the British Library in 2017! We discuss island communities and why these are linguistically interesting, before hearing about Rosy’s own research on the island of Bermuda in the north Atlantic.

Follow Rosy on Twitter: @RosyHall

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This week’s ‘What’s the feature?’ used a clip from:

BBC Voices Recording in Knowle West, Bristol. BBC, UK, rec. 2005 [digital audio file]. British Library, C1190/07/02. Available: https://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects/BBC-Voices/021M-C1190X0007XX-0201V0

Further reading:

Varieties of English in the Atlantic: Small Islands Between the Local and the Global – ed. Susanne Wagner, forthcoming (Benjamins Varieties of English Around the World series)

Tristan da Cunha and the Tristanians – Daniel Schrier and Karen Lavarello-Schrier, 2011

Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Okracoke Brogue – Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes, 1997

Mock Spanish: A Site For The Indexical Reproduction Of Racism In American English – Jane H. Hill, 1995: http://language-culture.binghamton.edu/symposia/2/part1/

Evolving English: Linguistics at the Library - Episode 5

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