Cockney

Fox, Sue (2017). Cockney. In: Bergs, Alexander; Brinton, Laurel (eds.) Varieties of English. The History of English: Vol. 5 (pp. 187-209). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton 10.1515/9783110525045-010

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There is no homogeneous speech form to which Cockney refers. Therehave always been slight regional differences as well as specific local variants usedby some speakers and of course there have also always been social and stylisticdifferences among individuals. Nevertheless, Cockney is a term which has a longhistory and, even if its application has been rather vague, has traditionally beenassociated with the speech of the lower social groups in London, particularly inthe“East End”. However, like any variety, it has been subject to change over timeand recent sociolinguistic research shows that socio-economic and demographicchanges to the area may render the term Cockney irrelevant to the majority ofpeople now living in the traditional homeland of the variety. This chapter willgive an overview of the traditional aspects of the London dialect while atthe same time taking into account some of the recent changes described as Multi-cultural London English.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures > Modern English Linguistics
UniBE Contributor:	Fox, Susan Patricia
Subjects:	800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 820 English & Old English literatures 400 Language > 420 English & Old English languages
ISBN:	9783110522792
Series:	The History of English
Publisher:	De Gruyter Mouton
Language:	English
Submitter:	Federico Erba
Date Deposited:	22 Jul 2021 08:34
Last Modified:	14 Mar 2024 12:31
Publisher DOI:	10.1515/9783110525045-010
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/156444