10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOCKNEY»
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster, 2010
2
Britpop and the English Music Tradition
... such as Rod Stewart and Chicago. The songs of Cockney Rebel were deeply
accentuated by Harley's 'mockney' vocal style. In terms of its association with
Britpop, many consider the 'mockney' style of artists such as Damon Albarn, lead
...
Professor Andy Bennett, Professor Jon Stratton, 2013
3
New Trends in English Teacher Education
Mockney Mockney is a less complex linguistic phenomenon than Estuary English
, being simply "sham Cockney", or the deliberate imitation of that dialect by well
educated speakers from RP backgrounds. Coming to the fore in the 1990s ...
A. Jesús Moya Guijarro, José Ignacio Albentosa Hernández, 2008
4
British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order
13. Mockney. Menace: The. New. Wave. For any student of popular culture, it is
instructive to notice how quickly a trend can pass, or at least descend into the
realms of exhaustion and self-parody. Of course, such a progression is often
mirrored ...
5
Mojisola Adebayo: Plays One
Some drunken mockney's got a guitar, trying to remember the words to —
MOCKNEY: Bufihlo Soldier — SOLDIER BOY: — but all he can remember is —
MOCKNEY: — T/Voy yoy yoy, wo ya yoy yoy — SOLDIER BOY: I clock Mum and
White ...
6
The British Pop Dandy: Masculinity, Popular Music and Culture
Indeed, masking one's original accent to sound like 'common people' has been
so widespread in the UK that the term 'Mockney' was introduced derisively in the
1990s to refer to this. Awash with examples of this, British pop culture would be ...
7
Joan Littlewood's Theatre
From Cockney to mockney: class, culture and criminality Unfortunately, it is very
difficult to discern a complex relation between the politics of working-class
representation and theatricality when it comes to Frank Norman's Fings Ain't Wot
They ...
8
AIDS Literature and Gay Identity: The Literature of Loss: ...
Guibert declares, near the end of the novel, when he despairs of ever getting the
promised vaccine: I still hope, although at the same time I couldn't care less, to be
injected with the Mockney vaccine that will save me from the HIV virus (or even ...
9
AIDS Literature and Gay Identity: The Literature of Loss
Guibert declares, near the end of the novel, when he despairs of ever getting the
promised vaccine: I still hope, although at the same time I couldn't care less, to be
injected with the Mockney vaccine that will save me from the HIV virus (or even ...
10
Second Dialect Acquisition
If you go (metaphorically speaking) down the British class scale, you've gone
from Cockney to “mockney”, and can expect a public tar and feathering; to go the
other way is to perform an unforgivable act of class betrayal. Voices are meant to
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOCKNEY»
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mockney is used in the context of the following news items.
Pictiúr Paradiso: Actor and Writer Patrick McDonnell on the films that …
The day after I saw it for the first time I cycled into see my friends in Dundalk and we conversed in mockney accents and tried to recall ever ... «The Irish Film Television Network, Jul 15»
We must take more pride in analysing how stories are made
Then, months later, we have a former Hollywood A-listed doing a mockney English accent in a cafe and pretending anyone wants to use the ... «Econsultancy, Jul 15»
15 albums that changed a band's sound forever
Her accent too, which has been steadily growing more American since she traversed from mockney to RP on her debut, has bloomed into ... «Gigwise, Jul 15»
A spanking for Sir Jeremy Heywood from Lord Owen writes …
He is a reminder of days when Leftist grandees did not need to hide a smart education (Bradfield, in his case) and mockney their accents. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
Batten down the hatches… Toby Stephens plays Captain Flint in …
If the idea of piracy conjures up visions of eye patches and parrots or Johnny Depp's mockney accent as Captain Jack Sparrow, History's epic ... «What's On TV, Jul 15»
Sugar tax could save a generation of Scots
However much his mockney accent or boyish enthusiasm grates, there is no denying that his gimmicky approach has driven the debate on ... «The Times, Jun 15»
Class prejudice knocks out ladders of success
... with regional dialects shedding them over the first few months, adopting an affected Southern accent or the mockney tones of the posh. «Global Times, Jun 15»
Parlez-vous prole? Why the upper classes use mockney accents
The Chancellor notoriously went all barrow boy to address Morrisons workers in Kent two years ago and the mockney sparrow has more ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
RACHEL JOHNSON: Now try calling Kate your 'current wife', William...
And Ed Miliband did it, too (he slipped into fluent mockney in Russell Brand's show kitchen). The Queen, however, would never refer to the ... «Daily Mail, May 15»
'Cheeky Nando's'
We get “mate,” to be sure; “wif” is a rendition of Mockney th-fronting (as in calling Keith Richards “Keef”). “jd”: I have no clue. Same with “curry ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, May 15»
