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STYLISTICS
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PRESENTATION INTRODUCTION
• Subject: Stylistics• Topic: British Accent
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INTRODUCTION BY RABIA MURTAZA
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MANCHESTER ACCENT
British English• Form of English used in United Kingdom.• Covers all English dialects in UK.
Dialect • Regional or social verity of language.• Distinguished by pronunciation, grammar etc.• Varity differing from standard literary language.
Accent • Part of dialect• Way of pronouncing words.
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MANCHESTER
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MANCHESTER ACCENT
Dialect of Manchester• Mancunian is a dialect of Manchester.• Originally develop from Lancastrain dialect.• Over enunciation of vowel sounds.• None for a glottal reinforcement (/k/, /p/, /t/)• Avoid Ng. Coalescence
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MANCHESTER ACCENT
Manchester’s Eminent Words or Phrases• Having a buzz.• Our kid (sibling or friend).• Scran (food)• Gafi (house or flat)• “the dibble” (refering to police)
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LIVERPOOL ACCENT
Scouse • Scouse is an accent and dialect of English found primarily in
the Metropolitan county of Merseyside, and closely associated with the city of Liverpool.
• Scouse is notable in some circumstances for a fast, highly accented manner of speech, with a range of rising and falling tones not typical of most of northern England.
• Irish influences include the pronunciation of the name of the letter "H" as /heɪtʃ/ and the 2nd Person plural (you) as 'youse/yous/use' /juːz/.
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LIVERPOOL ACCENT
[ɜː] as in 'fur' [ɛː]
[ɛə] as in 'square' [ɛː]
[riːd] as in 'read' [iːi ]
[sliːp] as in 'sleep' [i]
[bʌtə] as in 'butter' [bʊtɛ]
[fɔːk] as in 'fork' [fɔːx]
[bɑːθ] as in 'bath [baf]
[ʊ] as in 'book' [uː]
[ʊ] as in 'cook' [uː]
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LIVERPOOL ACCENT
Scouse is a non-rhotic accent, pronouncing /r/ only at the beginning of a syllable and between vowels, but not at the end of a syllable.
•/θ/ becomes /f/ in all environments. [θɪnk] becomes [fɪnk] for "think.
[k] pronounced as [x] at the ends of some words.•/ð/ becomes /v/ in all environments except word-initially, in which case it becomes /d/. [dɪðə]becomes [dɪvɛ] for "dither"
[flɔːr] as in 'floor' [flɔː]
[wɝd] as in 'word' [wɛːd]
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LIVERPOOL ACCENT•Other Scouse features include:•The use of 'giz' instead of 'give us'.•The use of the term 'made up' to portray the feeling of happiness or joy in something. For example, 'I'm made up I didn't go out last night'.
•The term 'sound' is used in many ways. It is used as a positive adjective such as 'it was sound' meaning it was good. It is used to answer questions of our wellbeing, such as 'I'm sound' in reply to 'How are you?' The term can also be used in negative circumstances to affirm a type of indifference such as 'I'm dumping you'. The reply 'sound' in this case translates to 'yeah fine', 'ok', 'I'm fine about it', 'no problem' etc.
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BIRMINGHAM ACCENT
• Second largest city of England.• Regional capital of west midlands.• 5.3 million population.
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BIRMINGHAM ACCENT
• British Accents Received pronunciation/RP Cockney Estuary Southwest British Accent Midlands Accent Northern England Accent Geordie Welsh
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BIRMINGHAM ACCENT
Comparison between RP and Midlands Accent• Vowel• “Oy”,[ɒi] is used instead of ‘i’ • “u” is lengthen to become ‘oo’[ʊ]• ‘o’ and ‘a’ are lazy and under articulate in some
words.• ‘i’ in becomes ‘ee’[i:]• “You” is pronounced ‘yow’• Diphthong[aʊ] is pronounced ‘æʊ’
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BIRMINGHAM ACCENT• Not every written 'r' is articulated. RP • The 'g' in an 'ng' formation is over-articulated at the
end of a word, or when followed by a vowel.• 'H's are dropped ,except when emphasis is required. • 'T's are occasionally omitted from the end of words.
DialectsBloke (gentleman) Gob (mouth) Gorra cobb on (bad mood)Bostin (excellent) Mizzley (cold and wet)Caggy Handed (left handed) Blartin (crying)
Cake hole (mouth) Morkins (stupid)Cocka (cousin) Sup (whats up)Coppit (catch this) Donnies (hands ) Wench (girl)
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NOTTINGHAM ACCENT
SELECTED CITY - NOTTINGHAM• Nottingham is a county in the East Midlands of England.• Centrally located, it is within easy reach of most of the country.• London is 124 miles away, Manchester 71 miles and Birmingham
49 miles.• French, Dutch & other communities language was absorbed into
the local dialect.
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NOTTINGHAM ACCENT
• Unique accent. • Nottingham has specific dialect and expressions.• Variable accent if one moves around the county.• The Nottingham dialect is alive and well.• It has almost uncountable accents of sub-divisions.• It is difficult to assess who has the strongest accent in Nottingham.
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NOTTINGHAM ACCENT
COMMON NOTTINGHAM TERMINOLOGY
Standard English Nott’s Accent
Standard English Nott’s Accent
DUCK Dook FRIENDLY Friendley
YOUTH Yooerth YELLOW Yella
JULIE Juleh REALLY Realleh
TAKE Tek DIRTY Dotteh
BUS Bos CITY City
MELODY Melodeh JUST Joost
ABOUT Abaaht SHIRT Shot
BATH Baff TO ter
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NOTTINGHAM ACCENT
COMMON SENTENCES & PHRASES• “I was about to have a bath before going to town.”
“I wor joost abaaht ter tek a baff , before gooin’ dahn tahn.”• “My mom says my shirt is dirty.”
“Me mam sez me shot is dottey.”• Take it home.
Tek it Om.
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NOTTINGHAM ACCENT
PERSONAL PRONOUNS DIFFER FROM STANDARD ENGLISH
e.g "It eent theirn; it's ourn!" (It isn't theirs; it's ours!)
Standard English
The Notts English
Standard English
The Notts English
Theirs Theirn Ours Ourn
You Yo Yours Yourn
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BRISTON ACCENT
BRISTOL• Bristol is England's sixth & the United Kingdom's
eighth most populous city.• Bristol is the largest centre of culture, employment
and education in the region.• Its prosperity has been linked with the sea since its
earliest days.
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BRISTON ACCENT
DIALECT• A dialect of English is spoken by some Bristol citizen known
colloquially as Bristolian, "Bristolese“.• There are many dialects of Bristol people.• Bristol natives speak with a rhotic accent in which the r in
words like car is pronounced.• Bristol people use “L” when the words end in “a” or “o”sound.• Example:• Area becomes areal and bacteria becomes bacterial etc.
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BRISTON DIALECT• Strangers feel as if there is an “L” after the vowel, e.g.• "Africa is a malaria area” but according to Bristolian accent
this sentence is pronounced as "Africa is a malarial areal.“• Difference in dialect from standard language.• Bristol Dialect Standard English use• Where's that to? Where is it?• Casn't Can't• Lush Nice/good• Gert/Gurt Really big
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LEEDS ACCENT
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LEEDS ACCENT
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LEEDS ACCENT
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LEEDS
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LEEDS
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LEEDS
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LEEDS
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LEEDS
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LEEDS ACCENT
DIALECTS OF LEEDS• The dialect spoken in Leeds named Yorkshire.• RP is followed.• Yorkshire accents are non-rhotic.• Rhotic consonants are not pronounced.• Vowel sounds are followed.• It contains a number of non-standard features.
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