Angol műfordítói képzésNyelvhasználat és szövegértelmezés

(Czottner Katalin – Balogné Bérces Katalin)

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Basic English dialectology. Dialects in translation

Spring 2011

Katalin Balogné Bérces

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Agenda

● background● major divisions of English accents/dialects

(i.e., a crash course in English dialectology)● representing non-standard pronunciation in

written texts: phonetic re-spelling / dialect spelling (case studies)

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Background

- accent vs. dialect- accent vs. foreign accent

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Background

- accent vs. dialect- accent vs. foreign accent- English: pluricentric language- RP (Received Pronunciation) – GA (General American)

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Background

- accent vs. dialect- accent vs. foreign accent- English: pluricentric language- RP (Received Pronunciation) – GA (General American)- Standard (British/American) English

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Major divisions

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Major divisions: acc. to region

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Major divisions: acc. to region

(1) England (north vs. south, the Severn-Wash line)

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Major divisions: acc. to region

(1) England (north vs. south, the Severn-Wash line)

major urban varieties: Geordie (Tyneside/Newcastle) Scouse (Merseyside/Liverpool) Brummy (Birmingham) Cockney (London)

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Major divisions: acc. to region

(1) England (north vs. south, the Severn-Wash line)

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Major divisions: acc. to region

(1) England (north vs. south, the Severn-Wash line)(2) Wales(3) Celtic countries (Scotland, Ireland)

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Major divisions: acc. to region

(1) England (north vs. south, the Severn-Wash line)(2) Wales(3) Celtic countries (Scotland, Ireland)Scotland: a standard of its own (SSE) with a spelling system

Yaize yer ain spuincanny leave nuthin alaneIr ye awricht, Jimmie?The kye cums hameAuld men dees an bairns suin forgets!

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Major divisions: acc. to region

(1) England (north vs. south, the Severn-Wash line)(2) Wales(3) Celtic countries (Scotland, Ireland)(4) North America (US English, Canadian English)

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● major accents of US English:

● Eastern● Southern● General American:● the collection of "that

majority of American accents which do not show marked eastern or southern characteristics" (Wells 1982: 470)

Major divisions: acc. to region

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Major divisions: acc. to region

(1) England (north vs. south, the Severn-Wash line)(2) Wales(3) Celtic countries (Scotland, Ireland)(4) North America (US English, Canadian English)

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Major divisions: acc. to region

(1) England (north vs. south, the Severn-Wash line)(2) Wales(3) Celtic countries (Scotland, Ireland)(4) North America (US English, Canadian English)(5) Southern hemisphere (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa)(6) English-based pidgins and creoles (the Caribbean, West Africa and the Pacific)

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Major divisions: acc. to region

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Major divisions: acc. to form

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Major divisions: acc. to form

e.g., pronunciation features

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1. Rhoticity

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1. Rhoticity

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2. FOOT/STRUTred line:FOOT-STRUT Split

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3. TRAP/BATHblue line:BATH-broadening / TRAP-BATH Split

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4. tapping/flapping

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4. tapping/flapping

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/05/09/toy-yoda.htm

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5. WH-reduction

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6. Yod-dropping

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6. Yod-dropping

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7. H-dropping

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Summary

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Summary

English-type vs. American-type accents

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Representing non-standard pronunciation

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Terminology● Pronunciation spelling / (phonetic) re-spelling (e.g.,

gonna for going to)● Sensational spelling (branding, popular culture)

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Terminology● Pronunciation spelling / (phonetic) re-spelling (e.g.,

gonna for going to)● Sensational spelling (branding, popular culture)● Eye dialect:

– unusual spellings for perfectly ordinary pronunciations, functioning to suggest that the speaker is uneducated or crude -- the sort of person who would spell the words that way (e.g., enuff for enough or wuz for was)

– a representation of dialect (or colloquial) pronunciations via unusual spellings: dialect spelling (A. Zwicky); literary dialect

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Terminology● Pronunciation spelling / (phonetic) re-spelling (e.g.,

gonna for going to)● Sensational spelling (branding, popular culture)● Eye dialect:

– unusual spellings for perfectly ordinary pronunciations, functioning to suggest that the speaker is uneducated or crude -- the sort of person who would spell the words that way (e.g., enuff for enough or wuz for was)

– a representation of dialect (or colloquial) pronunciations via unusual spellings: dialect spelling (A. Zwicky); literary dialect

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Representing non-standard pronunciation: stereotypes

● the stereotype is that the Irish say "noice toime" for nice time

● the British stereotype view is that American southerners say lerve instead of love, e.g., Don't starp lervin' me

● New Zealand: the short vowel of KIT-words is a central, schwa-like vowel; at New Zealand airports, in announcements a phrase like Flight 846 is reported to be heard by Americans as Flight ite four sucks

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Representing non-standard pronunciation: England (North)

Reg Smythe's Andy Capp -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Capp

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Representing non-standard pronunciation: Geordie (Tyneside)

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Representing non-standard pronunciation: Cockney

… Lots o' choc'late for me to eat, Lots o' coal making lots of 'eat.

Warm face, warm 'ands, warm feet,Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?

Oh, so loverly sittin' abso-bloomin'-lutely still.

I would never budge till springCrept over me windersill ...

My Fair Lady: Loverly

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Representing non-standard pronunciation: Scotland

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Representing non-standard pronunciation: ScotlandPict, Celt an nesty Norseman,

My, fitiver wid fowk say, If they kent that they're still bidin

Here in Aiberdeen the day!

etc.

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Representing non-standard pronunciation

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Representing non-standard pronunciation

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Representing non-standard pronunciation: Australia

Afferbeck Lauder (Alastair Ardoch Morrison):

Let Stalk StrineEmma chisitEgg nishnerGray chooma

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afferbeck_Lauder)

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Representing non-standard pronunciation: US (south)

Joel C. Harris's tales of Uncle Remus:"You er stuck up, dat's w'at you is," says Brer Rabbit, sezee, "'en I'm gwine ter kyore you, dat's w'at I'm a gwine ter do," sezee. — "The Wonderful Tar Baby Story"

Zora Neale Hurston:"Looka theah, folkses!" cried Elijah Mosley, slapping his leg gleefully, "Theah they go, big as life an' brassy as tacks." — "Spunk"

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References

Wells, J.C. (1982) Accents of English. Cambridge: CUP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_dialecthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensational_spellinghttp://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archiv

es/003813.html (Arnold Zwicky on eye dialect, November 23, 2006)