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Language Variation: Dialect
Task C - our answer to question 2
What feature mark Joseph's dialect?
Graphology and Pronunciation
The spelling of 'gooid' for 'good' may be a graphological indication
of accent, or perhaps an unusual pronunciation indicating his extreme
surprise at what Isabella has just said. 'Ortherings' is an indication
of a Yorkshire dialect pronunciation of 'orderings' (which is also an
unusual lexical form of 'orders'). Other straightforward graphological
indicators of dialect are: 'maisters' for 'masters', 'mun' for 'must',
'hev' for 'have', 'o'er' for 'over', 'niver' for 'never', 'mud' for 'might',
'lave' for 'leave' and 'owld' for 'old'. It is interesting how close some
of these forms ('lave' and 'owld' are to Molloy's Northern Irish indicators
we saw in Task B. The use of 'heead' for 'head' suggests a lengthening
and dipthongisation of the vowel which supports the possibility that 'gooid'
is dialectal. The most stereotypical Yorkshire dialect accent indicators
are the two forms for 'the', 't'' and 'th'', depending on whether the
following phoneme is a consonant or a vowel. These are well-known markers
of Yorkshire dialect.
Grammar
'Getten' for 'have got'.
Lexis
'Ortherings' for 'orders', 'flitting' for 'leaving', 'nigh' for 'near'
(though this use is common in many regional dialects
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