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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Cockney"”.
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Language and identity in the Cockney Diaspora: A sociophonetic and variationist study
… change in South East England as related to the Cockney Diaspora. This term refers to the large-scale 20th century relocation of white, working-class East Londoners to Essex. Linguistic production data is extracted from sociolinguistic interviews with 119 people from Debden, an estate built in …
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British Dialect for the American Stage
… dialect for the stage: Received Pronunciation, Cockney, and Estuary. This involves the exploration of the oral posture, resonance point, sound changes, rhythm and melody, and grammatical and lexical changes of each. This also includes the application of the dialect to a monologue. Accompanying …
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Libertas Reborn: A Legend of Florence and Leigh Hunt's Literary Revival
… younger days, when as the central figure of the "Cockney School" he had drawn other radical writers such as Keats and Shelley into his circle. These philosophies included the primacy of literature, political radicalism, sexual liberation, and group authorship. By writing a play in 1840 that …
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The Palaces of Comfort, Consolation and Distraction - The Pie and Mash shop as a performative space of a contested London working class memory
… the adjacent and evolving identity of the cockney whose contested memoryscapes have, I suggest, great contemporary political and cultural relevance in an age of populism and Brexit. The work excavates a tracing around the shops’ absences in historical literature. It situates their …
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Building a Secret House of Words. On Writing Come with Me: The Coyote Has Been Howling All Night
… belonging to the London Underworld, as well as Cockney Rhyming Slang and the secret language that she and her lover create to shield themselves from the sting of prejudice that they encounter. Secret languages have long served as vehicles for the unsayable for countless oppressed people who have …
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An acoustic sociophonetic study of three London vowels
… and external factors. Acknowledging RP and Cockney as referential accents on a multidimensional accent continuum in London, it is presumed that Londoners closer to the upper and lower ends of social continuum are distinguished as `London Upper Middle Class (UMC)' speakers and `London Working …