Title: The Dialects of England
Author: Peter Trudgill
Year First Published: 1990
Place Published: -
Publisher: Blackwell Oxford + Cabridge
The use of non-standard English;
Differences such as
I did it / I done it
A man that I know / A man what I know
He doesn't want any / He don't want any
She isn't coming / She ain't coming
We saw him / We seen him
Proposed Test:
Survey or conversation observation
Trudgill, Peter. The Dialects Of England. Print.
A study of non-standard uses of language would be interesting - especially to see how much is sociolect and how much is dialect, if you could ever begin to determine that... What sort of setup could you use for data collection? Who would you investigate?
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