AAA - Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 33, 2 (2008)

Special Issue
Broadcast English – Past, Present And Future

Guest editors:
Jürg Schwyter (Université de Lausanne)
Didier Maillat (Université de Fribourg)
Christian Mair (Universität Freiburg)


Lynda Mugglestone
Spoken English and the BBC: In the Beginning

Jürg Rainer Schwyter
Setting a Standard: Early BBC Language Policy and the Advisory
Committee on Spoken English

Catherine Sangster
The Work of the BBC Pronunciation Unit in the 21st Century

Hamish Norbrook
The English of Broadcast News: When English is Not the First
Language of the Audience

Jennifer Price
New News Old News: A Sociophonetic Study of Spoken Australian
English in News Broadcast Speech

Didier Maillat
“Broadcast Yourself!”
The Future of Broadcast English in an IT Age