Episode 56 - Danielle Turton and dialect study

03/05/2024 35 min

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Episode Synopsis

Here are the show notes for Episode 56, in which Raj and Dan talk to Dr Danielle Turton, Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at Lancaster University and Principal Investigator for a Leverhulme funded project on Lancashire rhoticity. We talk about:

Dialect levelling and why it’s a complicated picture

Why researching UK dialects is so interesting

What’s happening to rhoticity in the North West (and beyond)

Media discourses around dialect change


Danielle Turton’s Lancaster page: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/danielle-turton 
Danielle Turton’s own pages: https://danielleturton.rbind.io/ 
The rhoticity paper can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095447023000694 
Some of the news stories that we mention: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/researchers-fear-the-spoken-r-is-ready-to-roll-away-from-the-last-bastion-of-rhoticity 
Telegraph article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/16/blackburn-bristol-traditional-english-accent/ 
Archived Telegraph link: http://archive.today/pFeod 
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/lancashire-north-west-blackburn-jane-horrocks-england-b2470464.html 
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/28/strong-r-sound-of-some-lancashire-accents-in-danger-of-dying-out 
Contributors
Lisa Casey 
blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)
Dan Clayton 
blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 
Jacky Glancey 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey
Raj Rana
Matthew Butler 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 
Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 
Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys