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

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Taavitsainen, Irma.
Melchers, Gunnel.
Pahta, Päivi.
Series:
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 67.
Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 67
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Dialect literature, English--History and criticism.
Dialect literature, English.
Dialect literature, American--History and criticism.
Dialect literature, American.
Language and culture--English-speaking countries.
Language and culture.
English language--Variation.
English language.
English language--Dialects.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (415 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
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.
Contents:
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.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:
9786612163234
9781282163232
128216323X
9789027299031
902729903X

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