Rural Speech in Urban Norway
Kerswill, Paul (Lecturer, Department of Linguistic Science, University of Reading)
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Hardback
196 pages
Line Figures, Tables, Bibliography
Published: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0198248261
How and why do adults modify their language when they move to a new area? In this detailed study of rural dialect users who have moved to the Norwegian city of Bergen, Paul Kerswill throws light on this widespread phenomenon.
