Peaceful coexistence? Ideology in the representation of Scots and North American languages in Late Modern literature
This study discusses some ideological traits in Late Modern English literary discourse concerning contact with other languages or socially- and geographically-marked varieties across the North Atlantic. Beyond ‘dialect literature’ and occurrences of ‘literary dialect’ (Shorrocks 1996), other very po...
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ftunivbergamo:oai:aisberg.unibg.it:10446/182212 2024-02-11T10:06:27+01:00 Peaceful coexistence? Ideology in the representation of Scots and North American languages in Late Modern literature Dossena, Marina Dossena, Marina 2020 text remote http://hdl.handle.net/10446/182212 https://doi.org/10.25951/4359 eng eng volume:10 firstpage:81 lastpage:108 journal:TOKEN http://hdl.handle.net/10446/182212 doi:10.25951/4359 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Late Modern English Scotland America literary discourse ideology Settore L-LIN/12 - Lingua e Traduzione - Lingua Inglese info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2020 ftunivbergamo https://doi.org/10.25951/4359 2024-01-23T23:27:53Z This study discusses some ideological traits in Late Modern English literary discourse concerning contact with other languages or socially- and geographically-marked varieties across the North Atlantic. Beyond ‘dialect literature’ and occurrences of ‘literary dialect’ (Shorrocks 1996), other very popular works greatly contributed to the definition of how readers perceived different languages and varieties in terms of relative prestige. In addition, popular culture also helped to disseminate evaluations of linguistic features. Representations in such texts were often ambivalent, ranging from humorous (to the point of caricature) to nostalgic, elegiac tones, but they always drew attention to the exotic, distant quality of the forms under discussion. Indeed, glossaries often present these features as witnesses of a quickly vanishing past, in need of preservation like ancient relics. In my analysis I will consider both different languages and varieties of the same language, in an attempt to show how their more or less explicit evaluation contributed to the creation of their (often persistent) image among readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Aisberg - Archivio istituzionale dell'Università di Bergamo |
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This study discusses some ideological traits in Late Modern English literary discourse concerning contact with other languages or socially- and geographically-marked varieties across the North Atlantic. Beyond ‘dialect literature’ and occurrences of ‘literary dialect’ (Shorrocks 1996), other very popular works greatly contributed to the definition of how readers perceived different languages and varieties in terms of relative prestige. In addition, popular culture also helped to disseminate evaluations of linguistic features. Representations in such texts were often ambivalent, ranging from humorous (to the point of caricature) to nostalgic, elegiac tones, but they always drew attention to the exotic, distant quality of the forms under discussion. Indeed, glossaries often present these features as witnesses of a quickly vanishing past, in need of preservation like ancient relics. In my analysis I will consider both different languages and varieties of the same language, in an attempt to show how their more or less explicit evaluation contributed to the creation of their (often persistent) image among readers on both sides of the Atlantic. |
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Peaceful coexistence? Ideology in the representation of Scots and North American languages in Late Modern literature |
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Peaceful coexistence? Ideology in the representation of Scots and North American languages in Late Modern literature |
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Peaceful coexistence? Ideology in the representation of Scots and North American languages in Late Modern literature |
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peaceful coexistence? ideology in the representation of scots and north american languages in late modern literature |
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