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Language, Performance, and Region: Discourse and Sociocultural Identity in the Black Country
The project collected data from performers across the Black Country – poets, singers and stand-up comedians, as well as from local archives. It examined the notion that within a speech community, speakers may evaluate a non-standard variety differently than outside that community. This is particularly relevant to the Black Country, where the associated speech variety is...