ken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings
The triumph of English in the Renaissance--the successful efforts to advance the status of English over Latin and the continental vernaculars--has long been considered the major linguistic event of the period. Too often, Paula Blank argues, this has obscured the fact that English itself was divided by internal contests. By investigating the ways that early modern writers represented dialects, Blank reveals how "English" itself was a construct of the Renaissance, produced by discriminations made among alternative then-current "Englishes".
english dialects from the eighth century to the present dayThe word _dialect In old dictionaries was simply "a manner of speaking" or "phraseology," in accordance with its derivation from the Greek dialectos, a discourse or way of speaking; from the verb dialegesthai, to discourse or converse. The modern meaning is somewhat more precise, the meaning signify "a local variety of speech differing from the standard or literary language." english dialects from the eighth century to the present day presents a great account of English dialects from the old english to the modern one.
International Dialects of English is a course originaly made for accent training. It contains plenty of accents, Australian, Canadian, Newzealand, Welsh and others. the Audio clips are from the online International Dialects of English archive which has plenty of international accents, yet the facilitator books and the participant book is made to suit a reading and comprehnsion course along with different accents. It is a very amusing adventure for those who like to explore different accents.
The Morphology of English Dialects: Verb-Formation in Non-standard English
Why do we insist on using words that are 'wrong'? In this engaging study, Lieselotte Anderwald argues that dialects, contrary to popular opinion, do have a grammar, and commonly used words that deviate from Standard English have a long pedigree and systematically make more sense.
Corpus Linguistics Around the World (Language & Computers S.) (Language & Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics)
The book is a selection of papers presented at the Corpus Linguistics 2003 conference, held at Lancaster University in March 2003. It contains 17 contributions covering a wide variety of languages: Basque, English and it's dialects, Danish, French, Maltese, Dutch, German, Slovene,
