We were asked at Aston for our advice in selecting dialect publications in Black Country - we went round archives in the West Midlands trying to find handwritten documents with Black Country features suitable for exhibition. The British Library sociolinguists are always keen to involve the academic community in my experience!
Dr Esther Asprey
Research Associate
Languages and Social Sciences
Aston University,
Aston Triangle,
Birmingham,
http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/centres-institutes/interland/speech-society/
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>Thanks, Dave. Do you / does anyone know whether there's been any
>involvement from University-based linguists in the exhibition?
>I imagine
>there might have been, given that it's at the British Museum; but I'm
>asking because the project I'm on (Accent and Identity on the
>Scottish-English Border) has recently been asked by a museum
>in one of our
>study-sites whether we might be willing to help out with an
>exhibit they
>will soon be running about the Borderlands. I don't know
>whether anything
>will come of it, in the end, but it showed that the 'museums
>community' -
>at least, some parts of it! - has some interest in what we do.
>
>I'll take this opportunity to encourage everyone, once again,
>to post here
>with any question you have or discussion you'd like to have related to
>variationist sociolinguistics! Term has started or is about to
>start in
>most places now, I think; not that that has anything to do
>with when things
>get done, but still!
>
>Damien
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