The non-standard in writing: A look at West African and Southeast Asian literature
The present paper investigates the representation of non-standard varieties of English in literary texts. Using a corpus-based approach focussed on Southeast Asian and West African texts while also drawing on texts from Scotland for purposes of comparison, the study performs a quantitative analysis...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2018-06-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/6312 |
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| Summary: | The present paper investigates the representation of non-standard varieties of English in literary texts. Using a corpus-based approach focussed on Southeast Asian and West African texts while also drawing on texts from Scotland for purposes of comparison, the study performs a quantitative analysis that empirically defines linguistic feature profiles, revealing that the regions under investigation follow clearly distinct patterns, albeit with a common underlying principle. A diachronic investigation of these linguistic feature profiles shows that far from being static or stable, practices of representation vary from decade to decade. |
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| ISSN: | 1638-1718 |