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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953261203321

Titolo

Writing in nonstandard English / / edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers, Paivi Pahta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999

ISBN

9786612163234

9781282163232

128216323X

9789027299031

902729903X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (415 pages)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser. 67

Altri autori (Persone)

TaavitsainenIrma

MelchersGunnel

PahtaPaivi

Disciplina

820.9

Soggetti

Dialect literature, English - History and criticism

Dialect literature, American - History and criticism

Language and culture - English-speaking countries

English language - Variation

English language - Dialects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

WRITING IN NONSTANDARD ENGLISH -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Writing in Nonstandard English: Introduction -- Dickens as Sociolinguist: Dialect in David Copperfield -- Contemporary Irish Writing and a Model of Speech Realism -- Dialect and Accent in Jim Cartwright's Play Road as Seen through Erving Goffman's Theory on Footing -- The Representation of Nonstandard Syntax in John Dos Passos' USA Trilogy -- Doing the Unexpected: Syntax and Style in Raymond Chandler's Fiction -- Who is "Sivilizing" Who(m)? The Function of Naivety and the Criticism of Huckleberry Finn - a Multidimensional Approach -- Nonstandard Language in Early Varieties of English -- "Pills to Purge Melancholy" - Nonstandard Elements in A Dialogue Against the Feuer Pestilence --



Investigating Nonstandard Language in a Corpus of Early Modern English Dialogues: Methodological Considerations and Problems -- Language of Law and the Development of Standard English -- Cognitive Loanwords in Chaucer: Is Suprastandard Nonstandard? -- Auxiliary do in Fifteenth-Century English: Dialectal Variation and Formulaic Use -- I Think, Methinks: Register Variation, Stratification, Education and Nonstandard Language -- Catched or Caught: Towards the Standard Usage of Irregular Verbs -- What Aileth Thee, to Print So Curiously? Archaic Forms and Contemporary Newspaper Language -- Letters as a Source of Data for Reconstructing Early Spoken Scots -- Dedialectalisation and Norfolk Dialect Orthography -- Writing in Shetland Dialect -- The Ideology of Misrepresentation: Scots in English Broadsides -- The Medium for the Message -- Name index -- Subject Index -- PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Sommario/riassunto

This text investigates linguistic variation as a complex continuum of language use, from standard to non-standard. It acknowledges the mutually defining relationship that oppositional concepts have, and offers a multifaceted, multidisciplinary approach to non-standard writing.