English After RP Standard British Pronunciation Today /

• Main Author: Lindsey, Geoff (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Linguistics.; English language.; Phonology.; Sociolinguistics.; Linguistic change.; Language and languages-Study and teaching.; Popular Science in Linguistics.; English.; Phonology and Phonetics.; Language Change.; Language Teaching.

This book concisely describes ways in which today's standard British English speech differs from the upper-class accent of the last century, Received Pronunciation, which many now find old-fashioned or even comic. In doing so it provides a much-needed update to the existing RP-based description...