English-Speaking Towns & Cities: Memoirs and Narratives
Résumé
Introduction
Olivier Glain (Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Étienne)
Phonetics/phonology
Anne Przewozny (Université Toulouse 2 – Jean Jaurès): “Memoirs of Early Australian English: linguistic input in urbanised areas and its consequences on the formation of Australian phonology”
Stephan Wilhelm (Université de Bourgogne): “Fragmented monoliths – Towards a more complex view of the intonation systems of the southern and northern urban dialects of the British Isles”
Jane Stuart-Smith (University of Glasgow): “A Tale of One City: Phonological variation and change over 100+ years of Glasgow English”
Sociolinguistics
Inès Brulard-Carr (Université Toulouse 2 – Jean Jaurès): “We’re not Mackems”: identity issues in Houghton-le-Spring”
Marine Bellego (Université de Paris): “English, Bengali, and Honks in Kolkata: Contacts and Interferences”
Leland Tracy (Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Étienne): “The Sociolinguistics of Hip-hop in New York City”
Olivier Glain (Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Étienne): “Standard English, Urban Norms and Urban Myths. The Linguistic Imaginary at Work”
Sign systems of the city (semiotics)
Joan Beal (University of Sheffield): “Enregistering the Steel City: language, image and identity in Sheffield”
Rémi Digonnet (Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Étienne): “The Language of the Architect”
Simon Cacheux (École de Condé Art School, Paris): “Sounds of the city”
Stylistics
Léa Boichard (Université Savoie Mont Blanc): “A morphosyntactic and phonological approach to the representation of the Dublin dialect in The Snapper, by Roddy Doyle”
Mathilde Pinson (Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle): “Towards an urban Scots spelling? James Kelman, Tom Leonard and Irvine Welsh”
Literature
Aliette Ventéjoux (Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Étienne): “ ‘The roar was still in the air, the buckling rumble of the fall’: the resounding narrative of catastrophe in post-9/11 literature”
Elisabeth Bouzonviller (Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Étienne): “Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s ‘Metropolitan Venture’”