How the Book Industry Responds to Authors’ Use of Dialect in Contemporary UK Fiction and Two for Joy
uses the pit village dialect of North-East England (Pitmatic) in the dialogue of working-class characters. The accompanying exegesis explores how writers of contemporary fiction from the UK use dialect to represent Northern and working-class characters, and whether this choice affects the response t...
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| description | uses the pit village dialect of North-East England (Pitmatic) in the dialogue of working-class characters. The accompanying exegesis explores how writers of contemporary fiction from the UK use dialect to represent Northern and working-class characters, and whether this choice affects the response to this work from the book industry in the form of acceptance for publication, reviews and sales. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-958252024-09-05T02:04:02Z How the Book Industry Responds to Authors’ Use of Dialect in Contemporary UK Fiction and Two for Joy Bowden, Jennifer uses the pit village dialect of North-East England (Pitmatic) in the dialogue of working-class characters. The accompanying exegesis explores how writers of contemporary fiction from the UK use dialect to represent Northern and working-class characters, and whether this choice affects the response to this work from the book industry in the form of acceptance for publication, reviews and sales. 2024 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95825 Curtin University restricted |
| spellingShingle | Bowden, Jennifer How the Book Industry Responds to Authors’ Use of Dialect in Contemporary UK Fiction and Two for Joy |
| title | How the Book Industry Responds to Authors’ Use of Dialect in
Contemporary UK Fiction and Two for Joy |
| title_full | How the Book Industry Responds to Authors’ Use of Dialect in
Contemporary UK Fiction and Two for Joy |
| title_fullStr | How the Book Industry Responds to Authors’ Use of Dialect in
Contemporary UK Fiction and Two for Joy |
| title_full_unstemmed | How the Book Industry Responds to Authors’ Use of Dialect in
Contemporary UK Fiction and Two for Joy |
| title_short | How the Book Industry Responds to Authors’ Use of Dialect in
Contemporary UK Fiction and Two for Joy |
| title_sort | how the book industry responds to authors’ use of dialect in
contemporary uk fiction and two for joy |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95825 |