Jane Hodson, Dialect in Film and Literature

Jane Hodson’s Dialect in Film and Literature is heralded as the first book that provides an analysis of dialect combining literary texts and films to work on the representation of ‘different spoken, rather than written, varieties’ (1) of English. Dialect, in this context, is more than a combination...

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Hlavní autor: Hélie, Claire
Médium: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Études britanniques contemporaines 2018
On-line přístup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Shrnutí:Jane Hodson’s Dialect in Film and Literature is heralded as the first book that provides an analysis of dialect combining literary texts and films to work on the representation of ‘different spoken, rather than written, varieties’ (1) of English. Dialect, in this context, is more than a combination of regional and social variations. It is construed as a constructed, aestheticized form of English, a mediated form of art, so much so that the process of transposing dialect into artworks, which ...