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Writing in nonstandard English / edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers, Paivi Pahta.
- Format:
- Book
- 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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