Further Information on Mass Observation

 

• Hinton, J. (2013) The Mass Observers, a history, 1937-1949.  Oxford: OUP.

• Jeffrey, T. (1999) Mass-Observation: a short history.  MOA Occasional paper 10.  University of Sussex.

• Harrisson, T. (1974) The pub and the people. Welwyn Garden City: Seven Dials Press.

 

Publications based on the Worktown data

 

• Timmis, I. (2015) Pronouns and identity: a case study from a 1930s working-class community.  ICAME Journal 39: 111-135.  Available at: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/icame.2015.39.issue-1/icame-2015-0005/icame-2015-0005.xml

• Timmis, I. (2010) ‘Tails’ of linguistic survival.  Applied Linguistics 31/3: 325-345.

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Further information on Bolton dialect

 

• Shorrocks, G. (1999) A grammar of the dialect of the Bolton area.  Part I: Phonology.  Bamberg: Peter Lang.

• Shorrocks, G. (1999) A grammar of the dialect of the Bolton area. Part II: Morphology and Syntax. Bamberg: Peter Lang.