Project Project GroupGroup

Yorkshire Yorkshire

Dialect and Dialect and InterviewsInterviews

Yorkshire Excursion 2006

Agenda

1. Interviews and Samples2. Dialect3. Yorkshire Dialect Society4. Poem5. Further Information

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

Soft Dialect

Harsh Dialect

Influences

Media

Globalisation

Education

Standard English

-ing walkin‘ / talkin‘

‘a‘ is shortened bath / dance

‘h‘ eliminated ‘appy / ‘orrible

Phonetic Characteristics

Grammatical Characteristics

Past Participles

ate ettput puttengot gat,

getten

Negation

not nut

Possessives

my mi; ma

yours thine

Grammatical Characteristics II

Yorkshire Dialect Society

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

Johnson, E. Johnson, E. Yorkshire EnglishYorkshire English. Great Britain: Abson . Great Britain: Abson Books London, 1999. (p.39)Books London, 1999. (p.39)

Hornby, A.S. „dialect“. Hornby, A.S. „dialect“. Oxford Advanced Learner‘s Oxford Advanced Learner‘s Dictionary of Current EnglishDictionary of Current English. Ed. Jonathan Crowther. . Ed. Jonathan Crowther. 5th ed. England: Oxford University Press, 1995.5th ed. England: Oxford University Press, 1995.

BBC - North Yorkshire. BBC - North Yorkshire. VoicesVoices. . http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/voices2005/glosshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/voices2005/glossary/dialects.shtml. 15.10.2006.ary/dialects.shtml. 15.10.2006.

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BBC – North Yorkshire.BBC – North Yorkshire. Voices Voices. . http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/voices2005/glosshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/voices2005/glossary/barrie_rhodes.shtml#influences. 15.10.2006.ary/barrie_rhodes.shtml#influences. 15.10.2006.

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Rawling, B. Rawling, B. Yorkshire dialectYorkshire dialect. . http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/dialect/Index.htm. 15.10.2006.http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/dialect/Index.htm. 15.10.2006.

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