'Speikin Proper' : investigating representations of vernacular speech in the writing of three authors from South-Yorkshire coal-mining backgrounds

This thesis employs an interdisciplinary approach and draws on archival texts to investigate representations of Yorkshire speech in the writing of three twentieth century authors from coal-mining backgrounds. Dialect representation predominantly involves the respelling of words in order to invoke th...

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Main Author: Escott, Hugh Francis
Other Authors: Hodson, Jane
Published: University of Sheffield 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.647019