Author: Alexander John EllisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
English Dialects--their Sounds and Homes
Author: Alexander John EllisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
English Dialects - Their Sounds and Homes
Author: Alexander John EllisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Dialect Notes
Author: The Victorians and English Dialect
Author: Matthew TownendPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198888198
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The Victorians and English Dialect tells the story of the Victorians' discovery of English dialect, and of the revaluation of local language that was brought about by the new, historical philology of the nineteenth century. Regional dialects came to be seen not as corrupt or pernicious, but rather as venerable and precious. The book examines the work of the ground-breaking collectors of the 1840s and 1850s, who first alerted their contemporaries to the importance of local dialect - and also to the perils that threatened it with extinction. Tracing the connection between dialect and literature, in the flourishing of dialect poetry and the foregrounding of regional voices in Victorian fiction. It goes on to explain how the antiquity of regional dialects cast light on the national past - the Celts, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings - and how dialect study was also at the heart of the discovery of local folklore and oral culture: old words, old customs, old beliefs. And it tells the story of the three great monuments of Victorian dialect study that marked the apogee of regional philology: the 80 publications of the English Dialect Society (1873-96), an organization run by a committee of journalists and local historians in Manchester; the nationwide survey of The Existing Phonology of English Dialects (1889), which listened in on local speech in market squares and third-class railway carriages; and the multi-volume English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905), which collected all the previous labours together, and made an enduring record of Victorian dialect.
The English dialect dictionary
Author: Joseph WrightPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5518930976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The English dialect dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years. Volume 6. Supplement, A-Y.
The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, Or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years: T-Z. Supplement. Bibliography. Grammar
Author: Joseph WrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
Publications
Author: Chaucer Society, LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 1013, 1985
Author: Roger EatonPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027279772
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
These papers are a selection from papers presented at the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Amsterdam, 1985). Most studies deal with some aspect of an earlier stage of English, though present day varieties of English are also under investigation. Many of the papers show that there is a growing interest in the question why a certain change has taken place. Furthermore, the volume contains a considerable number of papers on historical syntax.
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
Book Description