Spoken English
Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English
Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use morphosyntactic material that they have produced or heard before. In other words, linguistic patterns and tokens, once used, persist in discourse.
The Handbook of World Englishes
'The Handbook of World Englishes' is a collection of newly commissioned articles focusing on selected critical dimensions and case studies of the theoretical, ideological, applied and pedagogical issues related to English as it is spoken around the world.
Modelling Variation in Spoken and Written English
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Using fresh data from the British National Corpus, this book criticises and expands Biber`s seminal study (1988) of variation in spoken and written English.
English Through Speech and Writing
This work provides an overview of the differences between spoken and written English and is an "interactive" task-based text.
Northern English
English as spoken in the North of England has a rich social and cultural history; however research has often neglected it in favour of 'Standard English'.
New Zealand English
This book is a comprehensive but accessible description of English as it is spoken in New Zealand. New Zealand English is one of the youngest native speaker varieties of English, and is the only variety of English where there is recorded evidence of its entire history.