| Автор | Cooper, Andrew, R. |
| Дата выпуска | 1994 |
| dc.description | In an attempt to evaluate the fidelity of Hardyʼs representation of dialect speech, critics have made implicit or explicit reference to dialects actually spoken at the time Hardy wrote his novels of rural life. To this end, comparisons are often made between features of ‘Wessex dialect’ and contemporary records of dialects produced by amateur dialectologists, such as Hardyʼs friend William Barnes. In this article I propose a new approach to the relationship between non-fictional records of dialects in the nineteenth century and the literary representation of dialect speech in Hardyʼs novels. I argue that the considerable practical and theoretical difficulties that are to be found in non-fictional records of dialects, mean that Hardyʼs version of dialect speech cannot be read back on to authentic dialect speech. Only when the non-literary definition and representation of dialects are recognised as problematic, can questions be asked which reveal the true complexity of dialect speech in the novels. I demonstrate a reading of the language of Hardyʼs novels as a complex intersection of contemporary rules of definition of dialects, which are re-presented in the texts as internally and mutually contradictory discourses. Focusing upon the discursive construction of the sign of ‘Wessex dialect’, I indicate how Hardyʼs literary version of dialect speech can be read as a political critique of the definition and representation of the opposition between ‘folk-speech’ and ‘book English’ at the time the novels were written. |
| Издатель | SAGE Publications |
| Тема | Barnes |
| Тема | William |
| Тема | cultural politics of language |
| Тема | dialect studies |
| Тема | discourse analysis |
| Тема | Hardy |
| Тема | Thomas |
| Тема | nineteenth century |
| Тема | Tess of the dʼUrbervilles |
| Тема | ‘Wessex dialect’ |
| Название | ‘Folk-Speech’ and ‘Book English’: Re-presentations of Dialect in Hardyʼs Novels |
| Тип | Journal Article |
| DOI | 10.1177/096394709400300102 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1461-7293 |
| Print ISSN | 0963-9470 |
| Журнал | Language and Literature |
| Том | 3 |
| Первая страница | 21 |
| Последняя страница | 41 |
| Аффилиация | Cooper, Andrew, R., University of Salford, UK |
| Выпуск | 1 |
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