English and Empire: Literary History, Dialect, and the Digital Archive

ISBN-13: 9781108444217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 369 str.

David West Brown

Opis

Presents an interdisciplinary study of literary dialect and an argument for a mixed-method approach to digital research.

Recenzje

'Overall, this is an insightful study, just as much from the point of view of the methodology employed as well as with regard to the insights concerning the features used in literary texts to portray the speech patterns of colonial subjects and how these reflect attitudes and stereotypes of society at large … Linguists will benefit from the detailed descriptions and evaluations of the 'digital toolkit' and literary scholars will benefit from looking at corpus patterns and wider contexts of literary texts if they give it a go.' Andrea Sand, Anglia

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Literary dialect, race, and empire; 3. Corpus design; 4. An overview of data and the digital toolkit; 5. Case 1: African diasporic dialogue; 6. Case 2: Indian dialogue; 7. Case 3: Chinese dialogue; 8. The enduring power of mimicry and the politics of measurement.