Multilingual Nation Online?: Possibilities and Constraints on the BBC Voices Website

Bethan L. Davies; Tommaso M. Milani; Will Turner

doi:10.4324/9780203143179-25

Multilingual Nation Online? Possibilities and Constraints on the BBC Voices Website

Bethan L. Davies, Tommaso M. Milani, Will Turner

Applied Linguistics

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In 2003, a proposal was put forward within the BBC for a project on language in the UK. From its inception, this enterprise had an overt social purpose in the sense that it not only aimed ‘to celebrate and explore the diverse languages, dialects and accents of the UK [… ] at the start of the 21st century’ (Rose and Mowbray, n.d.), but, in the words of Voices project director Mick Ord, it also intended to ‘unite people across the UK in a shared local and national conversation’ (Ord, 2005) about contemporary language use.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Multilingualism, Discourse, and Ethnography
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	197-213
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9781136499869
ISBN (Print)	9780415874946
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203143179-25
State	Published - Jan 1 2012

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