03721cam^a2200457^a 450099100102748970753620020719045602.0990611s1999 ne a b 001 0 eng 990363501556199457 (US; alk. paper)9027250820 (Eur.)b13309195-39ule_instDip.to Lingueitae-uk---n-us---CUTM820.921Writing in nonstandard English /edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers, Päivi Pahta.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia :John Benjamins Pub. Co.,c1999.vi, 403 p. :ill. ;23 cm.Pragmatics & beyond,0922-842X ;new ser. 67Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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.Dialect literature, EnglishHistory and criticism.Dialect literature, AmericanHistory and criticism.Language and cultureEnglish-speaking countries.English languageVariation.English languageDialects.Letteratura ingleseElementi dialettaliLetteratura americanaElementi dialettaliLingua ingleseVariazioni linguisticheTaavitsainen, Irma.Melchers, Gunnel.Pahta, Päivi..b1330919509-03-2216-05-05991001027489707536LE012 820.9 TAA12012000099630le012-E0.00-l- 05150.i1406898916-05-05Writing in nonstandard English1104330UNISALENTOle01216-05-05ma -engne 00