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Why do some Midlanders say ‘mom’ rather than ‘mum’? Since when did ‘you are’ become ‘youm’? And how did ‘don’t’ become ‘doh’?
One of the UK’s leading experts on English regional dialects and accents Professor Urszula Clark will explore the unique features of the Midlands dialect in her inaugural lecture at Aston University on Tuesday 5 December.
Her lecture, titled ‘Staging Language: Place and identity in the enactment, performance and representation of regional dialects’, will investigate why particular features of the region’s dialect still exist and how these connect to social and regional identity at a time of globalisation and media consumption.
Where: Room G11, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET.
Urszula Clark, Professor of English and Linguistics at Aston University, said: “There is a tendency for regional and social dialects of British English to increasingly resemble each other, and in some cases to become ever more like Standard English, particularly in terms of grammar and vocabulary.
“At the same time, how we speak is an integral part of who we are. Features of regional dialects still persist in regions of the UK today. Why is this?
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