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

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (415 pages)
• Disciplina: 820.9
• Soggetto topico: Dialect literature, English - History and criticism; Dialect literature, American - History and criticism; Language and culture - English-speaking countries; English language - Variation; English language - Dialects
• Altri autori: TaavitsainenIrma MelchersGunnel PahtaPaivi
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Writing in nonstandard English
• ISBN: 1-282-16323-X; 9786612163234; 90-272-9903-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827833403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pragmatics & beyond ; ; new ser. 67.