Dr Urszula Clark
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I am currently Reader in English within the School of Languages and Social Sciences (LSS). I am Director of The West Midlands English: Speech and Society project.

My main areas of research interests are: English pedagogy; variationist sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.

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You Are What you Speak

(1) Comments | Posted 6 December 2011 | (12:43)

George Bernard Shaw, once wrote that an English man (sic)woman only has to open their mouths for another English man/women to hate them. Until recently, this statement may have held true. The prejudices we all seem to hold towards people who speak with particular accents and dialects are deep rooted...

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