Varieties of English in writing : the written word as linguistic evidence / / edited by Raymond Hickey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910966814303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010
• ISBN: 9786612895760; 9781282895768; 1282895761; 9789027287786; 9027287783
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (390 p.)
• Collana: Varieties of English around the world ; ; G41
• Altri autori (Persone): HickeyRaymond <1954->
• Disciplina: 427.009
• Soggetti: English language - Written English; English language - Variation; English language - Social aspects; English language - History
• 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 index.
• Nota di contenuto: Linguistic evaluation of earlier texts / Raymond Hickey -- Non-standard language in earlier English / Claudia Claridge & Merja Kytö -- Assessing non-standard writing in lexicography / Philip Durkin -- Northern English in writing / Katie Wales -- Southern English in writing / Gunnel Melchers -- The distinctiveness of Scots: Perceptions and reality / J. Derrick McClure -- Irish English in early modern drama: The birth of a linguistic stereotype / Raymond Hickey -- [H]ushed and lulled full chimes for pushed and pulled: Writing Ulster English / Kevin McCafferty -- Dialect literature and English in the USA: Standardization and national linguistic identity / Lisa Cohen Minnick -- Written sources for Canadian English: Phonetic reconstruction and the low-back vowel merger / Stefan Dollinger -- Earlier Caribbean English and creole in writing / Bettina Migge & Susanne Mühleisen -- Earliest St Helenian English in writing: evidence from the St Helena consultations (1682-1723) / Daniel Schreier & Laura Wright -- An abundant harvest to the philologer?: Jeremiah Goldswain, Thomas Shone and nineteenth-; century South African English / Lucia Siebers -- A peculiar language: Linguistic evidence for early Australian English / Kate Burridge -- Describing and complaining :Written evidence of early New Zealand English pronunciation / Elizabeth Gordon.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume is concerned with assessing fictional and non-fictional written texts as linguistic evidence for earlier forms of varieties of English. These range from Scotland to New Zealand, from Canada to South Africa, covering all the major forms of the English language around the world. Central to the volume is the question of how genuine written representations are. Here the emphasis is on the techniques and methodology which can be employed when analysing documents. The vernacular styles found in written documents and the use of these as a window on earlier spoken modes of different varieties represent a focal concern of the book. Studies of language in literature, which were offered in the past, have been revisited and their findings reassessed in the light of recent advances in variationist linguistics.