04325nam 2200733Ia 450 991095326120332120200520144314.097866121632349781282163232128216323X9789027299031902729903X10.1075/pbns.67(CKB)1000000000520696(SSID)ssj0000285768(PQKBManifestationID)11235555(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000285768(PQKBWorkID)10321925(PQKB)11777848(MiAaPQ)EBC623297(DE-B1597)720398(DE-B1597)9789027299031(EXLCZ)99100000000052069619990611d1999 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrWriting in nonstandard English /edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers, Paivi Pahta1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.c19991 online resource (415 pages)Pragmatics & beyond,0922-842X ;new ser. 67Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781556199455 1556199457 9789027250827 9027250820 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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.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.Pragmatics & beyond ;new ser. 67.Dialect literature, EnglishHistory and criticismDialect literature, AmericanHistory and criticismLanguage and cultureEnglish-speaking countriesEnglish languageVariationEnglish languageDialectsDialect literature, EnglishHistory and criticism.Dialect literature, AmericanHistory and criticism.Language and cultureEnglish languageVariation.English languageDialects.820.9Taavitsainen Irma291445Melchers Gunnel488521Pahta Paivi424323MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910953261203321Writing in nonstandard English4346688UNINA