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| Author | : Manfred Markus |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2021-02-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9781108840651 |
Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) is the most comprehensive English dialect dictionary ever written, documenting in detail every dialect of English in the British Isles and Ireland, as well as the USA, Canada, South Africa, and other colonial regions. Over the past ten years, it has been brought to life digitally as a freely available database resource, EDD Online, which provides access to this rich collection of dialect data. This book is a comprehensive user guide to EDD Online, showing how to get the most out of this unparalleled resource with step-by-step instructions, illustrated with handy screenshots, and an appendix containing full colour figures. It also considers dialectological issues from phonetics to pragmatics, and how searches can be tailored to specific linguistic concerns, demonstrating the interface's enormous potential to contribute to research in a range of disciplines, from dialectology, to fields such as historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, lexicography and sociolinguistics.
| Author | : David Crystal |
| Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2015-05-21 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 1447282795 |
Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, and dig a little. In The Disappearing Dictionary, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delightful dialect words that either provide an insight into an older way of life, or simply have an irresistible phonetic appeal. Like a mirror image of The Meaning of Liff that just happens to be true, The Disappearing Dictionary unearths some lovely old gems of the English language, dusts them down and makes them live again for a new generation. dabberlick [noun, Scotland] A mildly insulting way of talking about someone who is tall and skinny. 'Where's that dabberlick of a child?' fubsy [adjective, Lancashire] Plump, in a nice sort of way. squinch [noun, Devon] A narrow crack in a wall or a space between floorboards. 'I lost sixpence through a squinch in the floor'.
| Author | : Joseph Wright |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 734 |
| Release | : 1905 |
| Genre | : English language |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Stephen Calt |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2010-10-01 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 0252090713 |
This fascinating compendium explains the most unusual, obscure, and curious words and expressions from vintage blues music. Utilizing both documentary evidence and invaluable interviews with a number of now-deceased musicians from the 1920s and '30s, blues scholar Stephen Calt unravels the nuances of more than twelve hundred idioms and proper or place names found on oft-overlooked "race records" recorded between 1923 and 1949. From "aggravatin' papa" to "yas-yas-yas" and everything in between, this truly unique, racy, and compelling resource decodes a neglected speech for general readers and researchers alike, offering invaluable information about black language and American slang.
| Author | : Joseph Wright |
| Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 5518930976 |
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.
| Author | : Irma Taavitsainen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2014-10-31 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1316061175 |
The history of the English language is a vast and diverse area of research. In this volume, a team of leading historians of English come together to analyse 'real' language, drawing on corpus data to shed new light on long-established issues and debates in the field. Combining synchronic and diachronic analysis, the chapters address the major issues in corpus linguistics – methodological, theoretical and applied – and place special focus on the use of electronic resources in the research of English and the wider field of digital humanities. Topics covered include polemical articles on the optimal use of corpus linguistic methods, macro-level patterns of text and discourse organisation, and micro-features such as interjections and hesitators. Covering Englishes from the past and present, this book is designed specifically for graduate students and researchers working in fields of corpus linguistics, the history of the English language, and historical linguistics.
| Author | : Manfred Markus |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : English language |
| ISBN | : 9783631600382 |
"This volume includes sixteen papers based on presentations of the workshop Wright's English dialect dictionary and beyond at the 15th ICEHL in Munich (2008)"
| Author | : Walter William Skeat |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 660 |
| Release | : 1890 |
| Genre | : English language |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Gunnar Jarring |
| Publisher | : Lund, Gleerup |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 1964 |
| Genre | : TURKO-TATARIC LANGUAGES DICTIONARIES ENGLISH |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Clive Upton |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2013-10-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1134527756 |
Do you call it April Fools’ Day, April Noddy Day or April Gowkin’ Day? Is the season before winter the Autumn, the Fall or the Backend? When you’re out of breath, do you pant, puff, pank, tift or thock? The words we use (and the sounds we make when we use them) are more often than not a product of where we live, and An Atlas of English Dialects shows the reader where certain words, sounds and phrases originate from and why usage varies from region to region. The Atlas includes: ninety maps showing the regions in which particular words, phrases and pronunciations are used detailed commentaries explaining points of linguistic, historical and cultural interest explanations of linguistic terms, a bibliography for further reading and a full index. Based on the Survey of English Dialects – the most extensive record of English regional speech – the Atlas is a fascinating and informative guide to the diversity of the English Language in England.
