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

• Record Nr.: UNISALENTO991001027489707536
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999.
• ISBN: 1556199457 (US; alk. paper); 9027250820 (Eur.)
• Descrizione fisica: vi, 403 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
• Collana: Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 67
• Altri autori (Persone): Taavitsainen, Irma; Melchers, Gunnel; Pahta, Päivi
• 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; Letteratura inglese - Elementi dialettali; Letteratura americana - Elementi dialettali; Lingua inglese - Variazioni linguistiche
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Writing in Nonstandard English: Introduction / Irma Taavitsainen and Gunnel Melchers -- Dickens as Sociolinguist: Dialect in David Copperfield / Patricia Poussa -- Contemporary Irish Writing and a Model of Speech Realism / John M. Kirk -- Dialect and Accent in Jim Cartwright's Play Road as Seen through Erving Goffman's Theory on Footing / Marion Fields -- The Representation of Nonstandard Syntax in John Dos Passos' USA Trilogy / Thomas Lavelle -- Doing the Unexpected: Syntax and Style in Raymond Chandler's Fiction / Laura Wright -- Who Is "Sivilizing" Who(m)? The Function of Naivety and the Criticism of Huckleberry Finn - A Multidimensional Approach / Bo Pettersson -- Nonstandard Language in Early Varieties of English / Norman F. Blake -- "Pills to Purge Melancholy" - Nonstandard Elements ; in A Dialogue Against the Feuer Pestilence / Irma Taavitsainen and Saara Nevanlinna.; Investigating Nonstandard Language in a Corpus of Early Modern English Dialogues: Methodological Considerations and Problems / Jonathan Culpeper and Merja Kyto -- Language of Law and the Development of Standard English / Matti Rissanen -- Cognitive Loanwords in Chaucer: Is Suprastandard Nonstandard? / Paivi Koivisto-Alanko -- Auxiliary Do in Fifteenth-Century English: Dialectal Variation and Formulaic Use / Arja Nurmi -- I Think, Methinks: Register Variation, Stratification, Education and Nonstandard Language / Minna Palander-Collin -- Catched or Caught: Towards the Standard Usage of Irregular Verbs / Larisa Oldireva -- What Aileth Thee, to Print So Curiously? Archaic Forms and Contemporary Newspaper Language / David C. Minugh -- Letters as a Source of Data for Reconstructing Early Spoken Scots / Anneli Meurman-Solin -- Dedialectalisation and Norfolk Dialect Orthography / Peter Trudgill -- Writing in Shetland Dialect / Gunnel Melchers -- Linguistic Airbrushing in Oral History / Kate Moore.; The Ideology of Misrepresentation: Scots in English Broadsides / Gerald Porter -- The Medium for the Message / Loreto Todd.