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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-92b1d66314254c9a8441c806426e2fce2025-01-09T12:52:48ZengLaboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)E-REA1638-17182018-06-0115210.4000/erea.6312The non-standard in writing: A look at West African and Southeast Asian literatureMichael PERCILLIERThe 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.https://journals.openedition.org/erea/6312representationstylisticsScotlandpostcolonial varieties of Englishpostcolonial literatureliterary linguistics |
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| title | The non-standard in writing: A look at West African and Southeast Asian literature |
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| title_short | The non-standard in writing: A look at West African and Southeast Asian literature |
| title_sort | non standard in writing a look at west african and southeast asian literature |
| topic | representation stylistics Scotland postcolonial varieties of English postcolonial literature literary linguistics |
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