The Southwest of England
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The Southwest of England
(Varieties of English around the world, . Text series ; v. 5)
Benjamins, 1986
- : pbk
Available at 42 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 220-229
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The volume consists of a substantial introduction, providing a geographical and historical outline of the area, an account of the origin of the area, an account of the origin of present-day southwestern speech varieties and a synopsis of their main features. This is followed by texts of three main types: brief selections from 17th to 19th century dialect writers, aimed at depicting characteristics of southwestern speech; longer 20th century texts - verse, dialogue in novels; transcripts from tapes from 1950 onwards of speakers of different ages and social backgrounds. A part of each transcript is also provided in phonetic notation.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgements
- 2. Preface
- 3. List of abbreviations
- 4. Introduction
- 5. The Texts
- 6. The Texts from Cornwall
- 7. The Texts from Devon
- 8. The Texts from Somerset
- 9. The Texts from Dorset
- 10. The Texts from Wiltshire
- 11. The Texts from Bristol and Avon
- 12. The Texts from West Hampshire
- 13. Glossary
- 14. Bibliography
- 15. Appendix I: St. Matthew's Gospel v. 1-16
- 16. Appendix II: Horace, Odes, Book I, ix
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