Steve Thorne
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Steve Thorne (born 1967) is a British linguist and writer.
Born in Birmingham, England, Thorne graduated from the University of Birmingham with a First Class Honours degree in English in 2000 and a PhD in Linguistics in 2003. His 2003 doctoral thesis, Birmingham English: A Sociolinguistic Study, analyses attitudes towards the variety of British English popularly known as Brummie.
He has published widely in the field of attitudes towards language varieties and also specialises in dialectology, sociolinguistics and the language of the military. He currently lectures for both the Open University and Matthew Boulton College of Further and Higher Education in Birmingham and works as a freelance linguistics consultant for local and national multimedia.
[edit] Bibliography
- Proper Brummie: A Dictionary of Birmingham Words and Phrases. Studley: Brewin Books, 2001. (with C. Chinn)
- Proper Brummie: A Dictionary of Birmingham Words and Phrases (2nd Edition). Studley: Brewin Books, 2002.
- The Language of War. London: Routledge, 2006.
