The New Cockney

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Susan Fox

   Pages 1-4

3. The Social and Historical Context

   • Susan Fox

   Pages 5-38

4. Methodological Issues

   • Susan Fox

   Pages 39-74

5. The PRICE Variable

   • Susan Fox

   Pages 75-111

6. The FACE Variable

   • Susan Fox

   Pages 112-139

7. Allomorphic Variation in the English Article System

   • Susan Fox

   Pages 140-184

8. The Qualitative Analysis

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   Pages 185-211

9. The ‘new’ Cockney

   • Susan Fox

   Pages 212-226

10. Conclusion

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    Pages 227-231

11. Back Matter

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The New Cockney provides a sociolinguistic account of speech variation among adolescents in the 'traditional' East End of London. Embedded in its social context, it focuses on the interaction and social practices within a single community and highlights some of the possible mechanisms for language change.

• London
• Cockney
• sociolinguistics
• language variation
• language change
• Bangladeshi
• adolescents
• English
• language
• Tradition
• literary diction
• discourse analysis

• University of Bern, Switzerland

  Susan Fox

Susan Fox is a Researcher in Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She specialises in variationist sociolinguistics, and is principally interested in language variation and change, using both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis. Her research work has focused mainly on the social and historical contexts that have led to the variety of English that is spoken in London today.

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