RT info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis T1 Voices from the Pitch: A comparative study of British dialects in videos about rugby A1 García Zalama, Jaime A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras K1 British English K1 Dialect K1 Identity K1 Sociolinguistics K1 Interview K1 Inglés británico K1 Dialecto K1 Identidad K1 Sociolingüística K1 Entrevista K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas AB Languages are modified for many reasons, and from these modifications come dialectalvarieties. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyse different dialects of the BritishIsles in order to find a possible dialectal identity, those dialects are Hiberno-English,English, Scottish English and Welsh English. I will provide a historical-linguistic contextfor each area in which the dialects studied are spoken to understand how Englishreached every region. I will explain previous studies on the description of dialects thatwill give me guidelines for the analysis. To reach the objective, a corpus has been createdfor each variety through rugby interviews from professional players and coaches. I willthen develop the characteristics found in the corpus, the results will be shownquantitatively and discussed. The results reflect that a dialect can be a symbol of identityin some regions. YR 2023 FD 2023 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/63917 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/63917 LA eng DS UVaDOC RD 18-nov-2024