Description
Presents an interdisciplinary study of literary dialect and an argument for a mixed-method approach to digital research.
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).
Reviews
'English and Empire is innovative in both methodology and scope. With its interdisciplinary examination of racialized literary dialect in imperial contexts, Brown's study makes crucial and needed contributions to both linguistic and literary studies.' Taryn Hakala, University of California, Merced
'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
Book Information
ISBN 9781108426558
Author David West Brown
Format Hardback
Page Count 368
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 720g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 20mm