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Variation at the BL

Variation at the BL. Dick Hudson British Library November 13 2007. Context: English. The Garden of Eden Just two kinds of English: Right (Write) and Wrong. Since The Fall into Linguistics Everyone is right But everyone shows their: Region Age Gender Race Education, etc.

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Variation at the BL

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  1. Variation at the BL Dick Hudson British Library November 13 2007

  2. Context: English • The Garden of Eden • Just two kinds of English: • Right (Write) and Wrong. • Since The Fall into Linguistics • Everyone is right • But everyone shows their: • Region • Age • Gender • Race • Education, etc.

  3. Context: schools • Variation is part of the curriculum • “Language variation Pupils should be taught about how language varies: • According to context and purpose • Between standard and dialect forms • Between spoken and written forms” • (National Curriculum for English, Key Stage 2, speaking and listening)

  4. Context: HE research • Dialect surveys • Survey of English Dialects 1948-61 • Sociolinguistics • Trudgill, Cheshire, Milroy, …. • What a lot of variation there is! • How to cope?

  5. Coping with variation:invent regions Trudgill, The Dialects of England

  6. Coping: enjoy the detail • Make raw information freely available • Via the Internet • Not possible in any other country? • Let people study themselves and their locality • Via focussed questionnaires • But provide an overview for comparison

  7. Context: research & schools • Schools need information • But schools can also provide information • Viv Edwards & Jenny Cheshire, 1986-8 • Survey of British dialect grammar • Children love it and learn from it • HE researchers can help • But collaboration needs a coordinator

  8. Jonnie Robinson • Lead Content Specialist: Sociolinguistics & Education • Linguist • Teacher • Innovator Jonnie Robinson

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