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

A study of how African diasporic, Chinese, and Indian speakers have been represented in British fiction. It explores the evolution of language ideologies and explains its computational techniques as part of a digital humanities toolkit. An ideal text for students and scholars of English historical linguistics and English literary studies.

List of contents

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.

About the author

David West Brown is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Marymount University, Virginia. His research examines writing as a social practice, its structures, and its history, covering topics ranging from Singaporean identity performance in online discussion boards, to representations of gender in sports reportage, to the stylistic differences between higher and lower scoring essays on educational assessments. He is author of In Other Words: Lessons on Grammar, Code-Switching, and Academic Writing (2009).

Summary

A study of how African diasporic, Chinese, and Indian speakers have been represented in British fiction. It explores the evolution of language ideologies and explains its computational techniques as part of a digital humanities toolkit. An ideal text for students and scholars of English historical linguistics and English literary studies.

Product details

• Authors: David West Brown, David West (Marymount University Brown
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781108444217
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44421-7
• No. of pages: 369
• Series: Studies in English Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Sociolinguistics, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: general, Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics