Writing in Nonstandard English

Editors

Irma Taavitsainen | University of Helsinki

Gunnel Melchers | University of Stockholm

Päivi Pahta | University of Stockholm

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This book investigates linguistic variation as a complex continuum of language use from standard to nonstandard. In our view, these notions can only be established through mutual definition, and they cannot exist without the opposite pole. What is considered standard English changes according to the approach at hand, and the nonstandard changes accordingly. This book offers an interdisciplinary and multifaceted approach to this central theme of wide interest.
The articles approach writing in nonstandard language through various disciplines and methodologies: sociolinguistics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, dialectology, corpus linguistics, and ideological and political points of view. The theories and methods from these fields are applied to material that ranges from nonliterary writing to canonized authors. Dialects, regional varieties and worldwide Englishes are also addressed.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 67] 2000. viii, 404 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.67

Table of Contents

Preface

Irma Taavitsainen and Gunnel Melchers | p. vii

Writing in Nonstandard English: Introduction

Patricia Poussa | p. 1

Dickens as Sociolinguist: Dialect in David Copperfield

John M. Kirk | p. 27

Contemporary Irish Writing and a Model of Speech Realism

Marion Fields | p. 45

Dialect and Accent in Jim Cartwright’s Play Road as Seen through Erving Goffman’s Theory on Footing

Thomas Lavelle | p. 63

The Representation of Nonstandard Syntax in John Dos Passos’ USA Trilogy

Laura Wright | p. 75

Doing the Unexpected: Syntax and Style in Raymond Chandler’s Fiction

Bo Pettersson | p. 87

Who Is “Sivilizing” Who(m)? The Function of Naivety and the Criticism of Huckleberry Finn — A Multidimensional Approach

Norman F. Blake | p. 101

Nonstandard Language in Early Varieties of English

Irma Taavitsainen and Saara Nevanlinna | p. 123

“Pills to Purge Melancholy” — Nonstandard Elements in A Dialogue Against the Feuer Pestilence

Jonathan Culpeper and Merja Kytö | p. 151

Investigating Nonstandard Language in a Corpus of Early Modern English Dialogues: Methodological Considerations and Problems

Matti Rissanen | p. 171

Language of Law and the Development of Standard English

Päivi Koivisto-Alanko | p. 189

Cognitive Loanwords in Chaucer: Is Suprastandard Nonstandard?

Arja Nurmi | p. 205

Auxiliary Do in Fifteenth-Century English: Dialectal Variation and Formulaic Use

Minna Palander-Collin | p. 225

I Think, Methinks: Register Variation, Stratification, Education and Nonstandard Language

Larisa Oldireva | p. 243

Catched or Caught: Towards the Standard Usage of Irregular Verbs

David Minugh | p. 263

What Aileth Thee, to Print So Curiously? Archaic Forms and Contemporary Newspaper Language

Anneli Meurman-Solin | p. 285

Letters as a Source of Data for Reconstructing Early Spoken Scots

Peter Trudgill | p. 305

Dedialectalisation and Norfolk Dialect Orthography

Gunnel Melchers | p. 323

Writing in Shetland Dialect

Kate Moore | p. 331

Linguistic Airbrushing in Oral History

Gerald Porter | p. 347

The Ideology of Misrepresentation: Scots in English Broadsides

Loreto Todd | p. 361

The Medium for the Message | p. 375

Name Index | p. 393

Subject Index | p. 397

“This book deserves a wide readership by both linguists and literary scholars, both for the detailed insights which it provides and for the general theoretical principles with which almost all the essays engage.”

Jeremy J. Smith, University of Glasgow

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