References for Estuary English

Main contributors: Celine Horgues, Carsten Hüttermann, Pia Köhlmyr, and Gudrun Parsons, 1998

ARTICLES / PAPERS / Internet etc

• Abrams, Fran "Gotter stop them glottal stops, awright?" Independent on Sunday, June 18, 1995
• Ascherson,Neal "Britain's crumbling ruling class is losing the accent of authority". Independent on Sunday 7 August, 1994
• Auberon, Waugh "Rage", The Oldie, April 2 1993
• Bex, Tony "Estuary English", Education Guardian, 6 Sept 1994
• Bradbury, Malcolm 'Eschew the Estuary'. The Times (of London). (Features). 1 Sept. 1994
• Bragg, Melvyn. 'Why dialects are dying beyond our ken'. The Times (of London), p.18. 2 June 1997
• Brooks, Richard. 'Trevor calls on big guns to bong bad English'. The Observer, p.1. 14 April 1996
• Casey, John. 'Estuary enthusiast who lets Street-Porter shout down Dr Johnson'. The Daily Telegraph, p.20. 7 Feb. 1996
• Charter, David. 'McDonald's grammar school'. The Times (of London). (Features). 12 April 1996
• Coggle, Paul, "Between Cockney and the Queen", Sunday Times, Wordpower Supplement, part 3, 28 March 1993
• Coggle, Paul, "The changing sounds of English". Sunday Times, London August 28, 1994, 10.8-10
• Coggle, Paul. 'Some Regional Accents Spell Social Death'. The Sunday Times. 6 August 1995
• Darnton, John. "The English Are Talking Funny Again". The New York Times, p.13. 21 Dec. 1993
• Docherty, Foulkes, Milroy, Milroy and Oxley Conversational and phonological factors governing the 'final release rule' in Tyneside English. Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 3, p 692- 695, Univ of Stockholm, 1995
• Donovan, Paul. 'The Origin of the Speakers'. The Times (of London). (Features). 20 Feb. 1994
• Edmonds, M "The sound of the suburbs", Options, Oct. 1991
• Eustace, S S 'Present Changes in English Pronunciation' In Hála, Bohuslav, Milan Romportl & Prûemysl Janota (edd.) Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences Prague: Academia, 1970:303-306 Evans, A "Social class split infinitively", Times Educational Supplement, Update [supp], April 1993
• Ezard, John. 'New Yorkers Catch up on Accent that Would Send Henry Higgins Back to his Phonetics Laboratory - Innit?' The Guardian, p. 18. 22 Dec. 1993
• Ezard, John 'Spoken English sold down the river' The Guardian Weekly, 9 Jan. 1994
• Fitzsimons, C "Should we make our kids talk proper?", The Guardian, 29 June 1993
• Gaskell, John & Jonathan Petre. 'Jean Brodie leads fight against Estuary English'. The Sunday Telegraph, p.6. 16 Oct. 1994
• Graddol, David "The Great British Accents", Sunday Times, 28 March 1993, Word Power Supplement Part 3
• Hopwood, Beverley & Cayte Williams. 'How new brown cow: the return of elocution'. The Independent, p.7. 24 Nov. 1996
• Houghton, Emma. 'It's not what you say, it's the way you say it'. The Independent (City, p. C2-3). 15 Oct. 1997
• Hymas, Charles "Yer wot? 'Estuary English' sweeps Britain", Sunday Times 14 March 1993
• Hymas, Charles 'Young Royals Put Accent on Slang'. The Sunday Times, p. 5. 10 April 1994
• Johnson, 'We the folk' The Economist, 28 Sept. 1996
• Johnson, Paul 'A woman wot hates English the way it is writ' The Daily Mail , 8 Feb. 1996
• Lawson, Mark "From 'ere to Split Infinity" The Guardian 7 Feb 1996:2-3
• Margolis, J "I'll say that again". Sunday Times, London August 28, 1994, 10.9
• Marston, Paul & Julie Kirkbride. 'Shephard wages war on "Estuary English"'. The Daily Telegraph, p.8. 14 Oct. 1994
• Massie, Allan 'How to Help them Talk'. The Daily Telegraph, p.21. 13 Oct. 1995
• McKay, Sinclair 'I believe in Estuary English'. The Daily Telegraph, p.17. 9 Nov. 1996
• Meikle, James & Stephen Bates. 'Shephard launches drive to improve spoken English'. The Guardian, p.6. 14 Oct. 1994
• McArthur, Tom "The New London Voice" English Today 38.10.2 (April 1994),63
• Milroy, Milroy and Hartley 'Paper in English World Wide 15.1, p 1-33
• Rosewarne, D "Estuary English", Times Educational Supplement, p 29 19 Oct 1984
• Rosewarne, D 'Estuary English: Tomorrow's RP?'. English Today 37, Vol. 10/1 (1994): 3-8.
• Rosewarne, D 'Pronouncing Estuary English.' English Today 40, Vol. 10/4 (1994): 3-6.
• Rosewarne, D 'Estuary as a World Language'. Modern English Teacher 5 (1996): 13- 17.
• Schoenberger, F "Update on English Language and Culture: ESTUARY ENGLISH" via Internet at http://w100.padl.ac.at/LuF/e/est01.htm, Sept, 1997
• Scott, J.C "The Rising Tide of Estuary English: The Changing Nature of Oral British Business Communication" Business Communication Quarterly 58, p 40-46, 1995
• Scott, J.C "Received Pronunciation English vs. Estuary English: Battling it Out Within the British Business Community". In Amin, S.G. & S Fullerton (eds.) Contemporary Business Readings, 1997 edn Cumberland, MD: Academy of Business Adminisrtation, 1996
• Scott, J.C, Green, D & Rosewarne, D "Revelations about Estuary English as an Oral Means of International Business Communication: a United States-Based Perspective". Book of Readings New York: International Business and Technology Organisation, 1997
• Sellars, Kirsten 'We wanna talk like common people'. The Daily Telegraph, p.15. 21 June 1997
• Spillius, Alex 'Can you talk britspeak?' The Independent, p.3. 24 March 1996
• Thomson, Alice. 'Shephard launches crusade against waffle and slang'. The Times (of London). 14 Oct. 1994
• Wallen, D. 'Stemming the Tide of Estuary English'. South China Morning Post, p. 16. 14 Oct. 1995
• Whitehorn, Katharine 'Taking the Oral High Ground'. The Observer. 15 Oct. 1995
• Wells, John "Estuary English?!?", paper given at the Colloquium of British Academic Phoneticians, Manchester, Easter 1994 (handout)
• Wells, John "Can we codify Estuary English?", conference paper, Heidelberg, Nov 1994 (overhead)
• Wells, John "What is Estuary English" English teaching professional, pp. 46-47; issue 3, April 1997
• Wells, John "Transcribing Estuary English" Speech Hearing and Language 8, pp. 261-267, University College London, 1994
• Wynne-Jones, Ros. 'Posh Prof tells young Tone to learn to speak proper'. The Independent, p.1. 19 Oct. 1997

BOOKS

• *Aitchinson, J, Language Change: Progress or Decay? Cambridge University Press., 1991, 2nd ed.
• *Cameron, D, Frazer, E et al, Researching Language. Issues of power and method. London: Routledge, 1992
• Coggle, Paul, Do you speak Estuary?, Bloomsbury, 1993
• Crystal, David, The English Language. London, Penguin Group, 1988
• *Graddol,D Leith,D & Swann,J (eds), English: history, diversity and change. London: Routledge, 1996
• *Honey, John, Does Accent Matter? London: Faber and Faber, 1989
• *Hughes,A & Trudgill, P, English Accents and Dialects. An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles. London/New York: Arnold. 3rd ed. 1997
• Kerswill, P.E, Milton Keynes and Dialect levelling in Southeastern British English. In D Graddol, J Swann & D. Leith (eds.) English: History, Diversity and Change (Open University text). London: Routledge, p 292- 300
• Kerswill, P.E & Williams, A, A new dialect in a new city: children's and adults' speech in Milton Keynes. Final report to the Economic and Social Research Council. 1994
• *Milroy, James, Linguistic Variation & Change. Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, Inc. 1992
• Mugglestone, Lynda, Talking Proper: The Rise of accent as social symbol. Oxford University Press 1995

SCRAP ITEMS

1994

• Letter to the Editor from Michael Bulley, 'Estuary English: A Thumbs-Down'. English Today 39, p.62. July 1994
• Letter from Richard Hudson 'Hot under the collar about the spoken word'. The Guardian, p. 25. 18 Oct. 1994
• Letter to the Editor from Paul Coggle. The Times Educational Supplement. 4 Nov. 1994

1995

• 'Send In the Voice Squad'. Marketing Week. 5 May 1995
• Editorial "Estuary English is awright, innit?", Independent on Sunday, June 18, 1995
• Letter from Paul Kerswill. 'Estuary English: It's what you say, not the way that you say it, that really matters'. The Independent, p.20. 25 June 1995
• 'Trevor and Perdita's Guttural Dream Team'. The Guardian. 18 Oct. 1995
• 'It's OK to Say 'yah' but not 'oo arrh''. The Independent, p.6f. 20 Nov. 1995

1996

• "Johnson" "We the folk" in The Economist, Sept. 28, 1996, p 115

1997

• 'We Need Help to Speak Right'. The Observer, p. 11. 3 Aug. 1997

Internet http://w100.padl.ac.at/LuF/e/est01.htm Update on English language and culture ESTUARY ENGLISH (F Schoenberger)

This page posted on UCL P&L site 1998 12 01, last revised 1998 12 16, new links added 1999 01 15, amended 2003 10 23

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