Natalie Braber
List of John Benjamins publications for which Natalie Braber plays a role.
Articles
2024 How “U” are “U” words? Exploring variation in the usage and perception of class-based lexical shibboleths in British English English World-Wide 45:1, pp. 94–124 | Article
That U (upper-class) and non-U (non-upper class) speakers are identifiable through their vocabulary is an axiom in England. These claims are repeated in books, in print media, on social media, and in conversations regarding social class. However, such claims are seldom investigated empirically.… read more
2015 The East Midlands Researching Northern English, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 369–392 | Article
The East Midlands, while defined as a dialect area in several dialectological texts (Hughes, Trudgill and Watt 2012; Trudgill 1999; Wells 1982), has been largely ignored by variationists and is frequently subsumed into the general “Northern” dialect region (as in Kortmann and Upton’s 2008 text).… read more