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Writing in Nonstandard English.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Taavitsainen, Irma
Otros Autores: Melchers, Gunnel, Pahta, Päivi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • WRITING IN NONSTANDARD ENGLISH; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Writing in Nonstandard English: Introduction; Dickens as Sociolinguist: Dialect in David Copperfield; Contemporary Irish Writing and a Model of Speech Realism; Dialect and Accent in Jim Cartwright's Play Road as Seen through Erving Goffman's Theory on Footing; The Representation of Nonstandard Syntax in John Dos Passos' USA Trilogy; Doing the Unexpected: Syntax and Style in Raymond Chandler's Fiction.