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Rob Drummond is an award-winning playwright and performer who has worked with the most prestigious theatres in the UK. He is an associate artist at the Traverse Theatre, and his wide-ranging work includes The Majority (National Theatre), the multi award-winning Bullet Catch (The Arches), the critically acclaimed thriller Grain In The Blood (The Traverse), and dating show In Fidelity (HighTide ...
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- What Is MBE?
- MBE Or Mube?
- MLE
- Local vs Hyper-Local
- Vernacular Or Style?
The term Multicultural British English (MBE) describes the idea of an over-arching variety of English that is related to, and which arguably emerged from, Multicultural London English (MLE). The concept was originally developed following research carried out in Manchester, where it was observed that young people were using MLE speech features withi...
MBE has also been referred to as Multicultural UrbanBritish English, which is the label I first used in 2016. Labelling language varieties is notoriously difficult, as it represents an attempt to formalise something which is, by its very nature, fluid and changeable. Personally, I have deliberately chosen to drop the ‘urban’ element from now on, fo...
The fact that MBE is characterised by its combination of features of MLE alongside features of the local variety means that it is impossible to provide a single description. In addition, a central characteristic of MLE itself is that it is generally conceptualised as a ‘repertoire of features’ drawn from, or influenced by, various input languages a...
Although local and supra-local features are maintained, there is some research to suggest that MBE speakers might rejecthyper-local features. For example, MBE speakers in Manchester maintain the supralocal northern English variety of the vowel sound in words like strut (to rhyme with put), or bath (to rhyme with math), but they may not use the more...
The extent to which MBE can be viewed as a vernacular (a natural, unconscious way of speaking), or as a style (consciously or subconsciously used to enact particular identities) is partly dependent on your own view of language and its relationship to other social behaviours. It is likely that both perspectives have some value. Language is always ch...
RKE Lead for the Department of Languages, Information and Communication. Part of the Leadership Team of the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies (MCYS) Associate Head of the Centre for Research in English, Language and Linguistics (CELL) Research Degrees Coordinator for Languages, Linguistics and TESOL. Programme Leader, MA Applied Linguistics.
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Jan 3, 2018 · Sign in to view Rob’s full profile. Professor of Sociolinguistics at The Manchester Metropolitan University. Researching, teaching and talking about spoken language and identity, accents, and language-based prejudice. · Experienced public-facing academic working with accents, dialects, identity, and linguistic prejudice.
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Mar 20, 2024 · Rob Drummond, Professor of sociolinguistics at Manchester Met, is fascinated by the way people talk. He has led a range of accent-based projects in the community, ranging from Manchester Voices exploring the accents and dialects of people in Greater Manchester to the Accentism Project examining stories of accent or language-based prejudice or discrimination.
Tackling linguistic prejudice through public dialogue: The Accentism Project and Accentricity podcast. In: Setter, J., Dovcin, S & Ramjattan, V (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Language and Prejudice. 2024. In press. ‘Multicultural British English’ in Susan Fox (ed.), Language in Britain and Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
