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Levels of language & pop group names

"Pop" references

Some linguistic articles include:

Simpson, Paul (1999) 'Language, culture and identity: With (another) look at accents in pop and rock singing', Multilingua 18-4, 343-367

Trudgill, Peter (1980) 'Acts of conflicting identity: A sociolinguistic look at British pop songs. In de Silva, M. W. (ed.), Festchrift for R. B. Le Page. York Papers in Linguistics, 9.

Trudgill, Peter (1983) 'Acts of conflicting identity: The sociolinguistics of British pop-song pronunciation. In Trudgill, P. (ed.), On Dialect. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 141-160.

Trudgill, Peter (1997) 'Acts of conflicting identity: The sociolinguistics of British pop-song pronunciations. In Coupland, N. and A. Jaworski (eds.), Sociolinguistics: A Coursebook and Reader. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 251.270.

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