Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Writing in Nonstandard English 1
5. Dickens as Sociolinguist 27
6. Contemporary Irish Writing and a Model of Speech Realism 45
7. Dialect and Accent in Jim Cartwright’s Play Road as Seen through Erving Goffman’s Theory on Footing 63
8. The Representation of Nonstandard Syntax in John Dos Passos’ USA Trilogy 75
9. Doing the Unexpected 87
10. Who Is “Sivilizing” Who(m)? The Function of Naivety and the Criticism of Huckleberry Finn — A Multidimensional Approach 101
11. Nonstandard Language in Early Varieties of English 123
12. “Pills to Purge Melancholy” — Nonstandard Elements in A Dialogue Against the Feuer Pestilence 151
13. Investigating Nonstandard Language in a Corpus of Early Modern English Dialogues 171
14. Language of Law and the Development of Standard English 189
15. Cognitive Loanwords in Chaucer 205
16. Auxiliary Do in Fifteenth-Century English 225
17. I Think, Methinks 243
18. Catched or Caught 263
19. What Aileth Thee, to Print So Curiously? Archaic Forms and Contemporary Newspaper Language 285
20. Letters as a Source of Data for Reconstructing Early Spoken Scots 305
21. Dedialectalisation and Norfolk Dialect Orthography 323
22. Writing in Shetland Dialect 331
23. Linguistic Airbrushing in Oral History 347
24. The Ideology of Misrepresentation 361
25. The Medium for the Message 375
26. Name Index 393
27. Subject Index 397