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Titolo |
Writing in nonstandard English / / edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers, Paivi Pahta |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999 |
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ISBN |
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9786612163234 |
9781282163232 |
128216323X |
9789027299031 |
902729903X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (415 pages) |
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Collana |
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Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser. 67 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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TaavitsainenIrma |
MelchersGunnel |
PahtaPaivi |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Dialect literature, English - History and criticism |
Dialect literature, American - History and criticism |
Language and culture - English-speaking countries |
English language - Variation |
English language - Dialects |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 -- |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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