Varieties of English in writing
Subtitle: the written word as linguistic evidence
By: edited by Raymond Hickey
Series: Varieties of English around the world -- G41
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027249012
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Linguistic evaluation of earlier texts / Raymond Hickey; title: Non-standard language in earlier English / Claudia Claridge & Merja Kytö; title: Assessing non-standard writing in lexicography / Philip Durkin; title: Northern English in writing / Katie Wales; title: Southern English in writing / Gunnel Melchers; title: The distinctiveness of Scots: Perceptions and reality / J. Derrick McClure; title: Irish English in early modern drama: The birth of a linguistic stereotype / Raymond Hickey; title: [H]ushed and lulled full chimes for pushed and pulled: Writing Ulster English / Kevin McCafferty; title: Dialect literature and English in the USA: Standardization and national linguistic identity in the nineteenth century / Lisa Cohen Minnick; title: Written sources for Canadian English: Phonetic reconstruction and the low-back vowel merger / Stefan Dollinger; title: Earlier Caribbean English and creole in writing / Bettina Migge & Susanne Mühleisen; title: Earliest st helenian english in writing: evidence from the st helena consultations (1682-1723) / Daniel Schreier & Laura Wright; title: An abundant harvest to the philologer? / Jeremiah Goldswain; title: Thomas Shone and nineteenth-century South African English / Lucia Siebers; title: A peculiar language: Linguistic evidence for early Australian English / Kate Burridge; title: Describing and complaining :Written evidence of early New Zealand English pronunciation / Elizabeth Gordon.