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