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Contributing to Goffman with the Open Access Fund

Contributing to Goffman with the Open Access Fund

The Open Access Team have recently announced the publication of another work funded by the Essex’s institutional Open Access Fund. The latest publication, a chapter by Dr Rebecca Clift, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics, contributes to a major new essay collection from Routledge.

Sean Andersson

29 January 2024

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From Romania to Essex Business School: Ramona’s story

From Romania to Essex Business School: Ramona’s story

Ramona joined Essex Business School to study Business Management with a Modern Language so that she could combine her career goals with her love of Spanish.

Essex Business School

20 November 2023

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The cockney dialect is not dead its just called Essex now

The cockney dialect is not dead its just called Essex now

The cockney dialect is not dead its just called Essex now

Dr Amanda Cole

27 February 2023

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Speaking of Essex Artwork celebrating Essex dialects

Speaking of Essex Artwork celebrating Essex dialects

Speaking of Essex Artwork celebrating Essex dialects

Dr Amanda Cole, Dr Ella Jeffries

03 November 2022

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Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing your working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination

Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing your working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination

Dr Amanda Cole

15 September 2022

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Who speaks “chavvy”? Comparing accent and class prejudice in England and The Netherlands

Who speaks “chavvy”? Comparing accent and class prejudice in England and The Netherlands

Dr Amanda Cole of the University of Essex and Emeritus Professor Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics compare chavs, who personify contemptuous commentary on the working class in England, with a similar figure in The Netherlands: Haagse Harry (Harry from The Hague). It is remarkable how many of the associated characteristics and behaviours of chavs fit Harry like a glove, such as wearing bling and tracksuits, and supposed antisocial behaviour and laziness.

Dr Amanda Cole, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

25 August 2022

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Haemorrhaging: why some words are so easy to mispronounce (and why that could be a good thing)

Haemorrhaging: why some words are so easy to mispronounce (and why that could be a good thing)

Dr Amanda Cole, Dr Connor Youngberg, Dr Faith Chiu

31 January 2022

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Decolonising the curriculum: English dominates but at a cost to African languages

Adeyemi P. Awomodu is a final year student studying BA English Language and Linguistics at Essex.

Adeyemi P. Awomodu

15 September 2020

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