Post on 16-Dec-2015
Project Project GroupGroup
Yorkshire Yorkshire
Dialect and Dialect and InterviewsInterviews
Yorkshire Excursion 2006
Interviews
Preparation
Should you choose one topic or various topics?
Who do you want to ask?
What do you do to keep the interviewees talking?
How are the questions designed?
Interviews
Problems Finding someone who wants to give
an interview People just answering with Yes and
No High flexibility of questions required
Principle of flexible question worked best
Clogs’ll spark Clogs’ll spark toneet!!toneet!!
(We‘ll have a fantastic night out this evening)
Dialect
Dialect
Definition
The form of a language used in a part of a country or by a class of people with grammar, words and pronunciation that may be different from other forms of the same language.
History
Scandinavian Influence
Standard English
Yorkshire dialect
Modern Norwegian
fist nieve Neve
child bairn barn
-ing walkin‘ / talkin‘
‘a‘ is shortened bath / dance
‘h‘ eliminated ‘appy / ‘orrible
Phonetic Characteristics
General Information
Established in 1897
The world's oldest surviving dialect society
Main aim: encourage the study and recording of dialect
Four meetings each year
(all meetings are open to the general public)
Worldwide membership
History
1894
Joseph Wright addressed a meeting about
a project to prepare and publish an English Dialect Dictionary
The committee formed as a result, was to be the nucleus of the Yorkshire Dialect Society
History II
1946: Professor Harold Orton spoke of the urgent need for an English dialect atlas
Survey of English Dialects
Members of the society took part in this survey
1997: 100th anniversary
“Wheea’s that?” yelled oor missus When Ah waved as a tractor com near.“Whey, it’s Aud Wheeaist,” Ah said,“E's varry wheel knawn aroond here.”
“’Ow come thoo knaws him?” she aksed.“Thoo's nivver waved afoor!” Ah says, “Ah dissn’t wave at sthrangers, ma, Aud Wheeaist lives ower t’moor.”
Poem – Aud Wheeaist
Further Information
Yorkshire Dialect Society
→ www.ydsociety.org.uk
Listening Samples
→ www.yorkshire-dialect.org
Glossary, Survey, and Examples
→ www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/#Language
Collection of Traditional Poems
→ www.hyphenologist.co.uk/songs/ydp.html
SourcesSources
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