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Project Group  Yorkshire Dialect and Interviews

Yorkshire Excursion 2006. Project Group  Yorkshire Dialect and Interviews. Agenda. Interviews and Samples Dialect Yorkshire Dialect Society Poem Further Information. Interviews. Preparation Should you choose one topic or various topics? Who do you want to ask?

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Project Group  Yorkshire Dialect and Interviews

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  1. Yorkshire Excursion 2006 Project Group  Yorkshire Dialect and Interviews

  2. Agenda • Interviews and Samples • Dialect • Yorkshire Dialect Society • Poem • Further Information

  3. 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?

  4. 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

  5. Dialect Clogs’ll spark toneet!! (We‘ll have a fantastic night out this evening)

  6. 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.

  7. History Scandinavian Influence

  8. Soft Dialect HarshDialect

  9. Influences Globalisation Standard English Media Education

  10. Phonetic Characteristics • -ing walkin‘ / talkin‘ • ‘a‘ is shortened bath / dance • ‘h‘ eliminated ‘appy / ‘orrible

  11. Grammatical Characteristics • Past Participles • ate  ett • put  putten • got  gat, getten • Negation • not  nut

  12. Grammatical Characteristics II • Possessives • my  mi; ma • yours  thine

  13. Yorkshire Dialect Society

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. Poem – Aud Wheeaist “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.”

  18. 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

  19. Sources • Johnson, E. Yorkshire English. Great Britain: Abson Books London, 1999. (p.39) • Hornby, A.S. „dialect“. Oxford Advanced Learner‘s Dictionary of Current English. Ed. Jonathan Crowther. 5th ed. England: Oxford University Press, 1995. • BBC - North Yorkshire. Voices. http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/voices2005/glossary/dialects.shtml. 15.10.2006. • http://photos.linternaute.com/photo/867969/4045678974/4/les_vikings_chez_les_indiens/. 10.11.2006. • http://www.yorkshirebutterflies.org.uk/. 10.11.2006.

  20. http://images.bestwebbuys.com/muze/books/16/0198604416.jpg. 15.10.2006 • BBC – North Yorkshire. Voices. http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/voices2005/glossary/barrie_rhodes.shtml#influences. 15.10.2006. • http://www.fb1.uni-siegen.de/ba_ma/grafiken/hoersaal_2.jpg. 15.10.2006. • http://scienceandreligion.com/images/earth_globe.jpg. 10.11.2006. • http://www.videosift.com/blog/images/old-TV-set.png. 10.11.2006. • Rawling, B. Yorkshire dialect. http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/dialect/Index.htm. 15.10.2006.

  21. Thank You for Your Attention

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