32.1358, Books: English and Empire: Brown

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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 17:30:11
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: English and Empire: Brown

 


Title: English and Empire 
Subtitle: Literary History, Dialect, and the Digital Archive 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/history-english-language/english-and-empire-literary-history-dialect-and-digital-archive?format=PB 


Author: David West Brown

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108444217 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 35.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108444217 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 27.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108444217 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 32.67


Abstract:

Combining statistical modelling and archival study, English and Empire
investigates how African diasporic, Chinese, and Indian characters have been
voiced in British fiction and drama produced between 1768 and 1929. The
analysis connects patterns of linguistic representation to changes in the
imperial political economy, to evolving language ideologies that circulate in
the Anglophone world, and to shifts in sociocultural anxieties that crosscut
race and empire. In carrying out his investigation, David West Brown makes the
case for a methodological approach that links the distant (quantitative) and
close (qualitative) reading of diverse digital artefacts. Taking an
interdisciplinary approach, the book will appeal to a variety of scholars and
students including sociolinguists interested in historical language variation,
as well as literary scholars interested in postcolonial studies and the
digital humanities.
 



1. Introduction; 2. Literary dialect, race, and empire; 3. Corpus design; 4.
An overview of data and the digital toolkit; 5. Case 1: African diasporic
dialogue; 6. Case 2: Indian dialogue; 7. Case 3: Chinese dialogue; 8. The
enduring power of mimicry and the politics of measurement.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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