The Dialects of British English in Fictional Texts

Author:   Donatella Montini ,  Irene Ranzato (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   218
Publication Date:   21 June 2021
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Author:   Donatella Montini ,  Irene Ranzato (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9780367856113


ISBN 10:   0367856115
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   21 June 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"List of Contributors Introduction: The Dialects of British English in Fictional Texts: Style, Translation and Ideology Voices on page 1) Scots as the Language of the Uncanny: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Gothic Narratives 2) Enregistering Nationhood: Cornwall and ""Cornu-English"" in the Works of Alan M. Kent 3) An Analysis of the Use of Vernacular in Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End and its Spanish and Italian Translations Voices on stage 4) Shakespeare’s Multilingual Classrooms: Style, Stylisation and Linguistic Authority 5) ""Peden bras vidne whee bis cregas"": Cornish on the Early Modern Stage 6) ""Aw’m Lancashire, owd cock, and gradely hearty"": Enregistered Lancashire Voices in the Nineteenth-Century Theatre Voices on screen 7) Some Observations on British Accent Stereotypes in Hollywood-Style Films 8) The Accented Voice in Audiovisual Shakespeare 9) Bastard of the North or Kingg uv th’ Nohrth? /ˈbɑː.stəd/ /frɒm/ /də/ /nɔːθ/ or /kɪŋg/ /ɪn/ /də/ /nɒːθ/ 10) ""Why is he making that funny noise?"": The RP Speaker as an Ooutcast Index"

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Donatella Montini is Full Professor in English Language and Translation at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, where she teaches History of English and Stylistics. She has published extensively on Shakespeare,early modern English multilingualism, language teaching, and translation (with special regard to John Florio). She has recently authored a volume on contemporary stylistics, La stilistica inglese contemporanea: Teorie e metodi (2020), and co-edited a book on Queen Elizabeth I’s language and style, Elizabeth I in Writing: Language, Power and Representation in Early Modern England (2018). Irene Ranzato is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She holds a PhD in Translation Studies. Her research lies at the intersection of linguistic and cultural issues and focuses on the linguistic analysis of film and television dialogue and on the varieties of British English. Among her most recent publications are the books Translating Culture Specific References on Television (2016) and Queen’s English? Gli accenti dell’Inghilterra (2017). She also co-edited Linguistic and Cultural Representation in Audiovisual Translation (2018) and Reassessing Dubbing: Historical Approaches and Current Trends (2019).

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