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Author : Lewis J. Poteet
Publisher : Hantsport, N.S. : Lancelot Press
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Canadianisms
ISBN : 0889992894
Author : Lewis Poteet
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780595311941
Collected from the talk of the people who live along Nova Scotia's South Shore, from Halifax to Yarmouth on the Atlantic shore, this book is a lively guide to the unusual way they speak. It is both very old, including words and phrases spoken but not written down since before Chaucer, and in a lively way, new and elaborate, like the original, complete version of "happy as a clam." It provides a guide to the life and character of these resilient fisher and farm folk. The work is illustrated with old photographs from the region, and it includes scholarly appendices on "Elizabethan English on Nova Scotia's South Shore" and "Rough Measure in Maritime Dialect Research," the latter written with Jacqueline Baum. The language will bring back vivid memories to those who have visited this scenic Maritime place and attract those who have not, to do so. As the record of a limited speech community, it may help students of English as a Second Language. It has been used by novelists, playwrights, and poets (including Robert MacNeil of the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, Canada's prolific dramatist Paul LeDoux, and George Elliott Clarke, a much-honored black Canadian poet), to give authentic flavor to their works. It will bring joy and insight to all who love language.
Author : George Peabody,Carolyn MacGregor,Richard Thorne
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0921921004
The Maritimes: Tradition, Challenge & Change is a high school textbook used to teach students about the social conditions of the Maritimes. Every major aspect of the region is included--its natural resources and economy, its changing social and political life, and its unique cultural expressions. Often these come alive through the expreiences of the diverse array of Maritimers from all walks of life and from all parts of the region that appear in these pages. The Maritimes: Tradition, Challenge & Change is a unique picture of a region with a strong sense of tradition, facing many challenges, and undergoing change in every area of life.
Author : Terry Kenneth Pratt
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0802079040
Strupac, fornenst, trappy, scriss, kippy, snool, flying axehandles, from across - these and hundreds of other fascinating and colourful words and phrases give the English language as it has been spoken in Canada's smallest province a flavour all its own. With the Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English, T.K. Pratt makes a major scholarly contribution to the growing list of regional dictionaries that enable us to discover the rich heritage of the language as spoken throughout North America; at the same time it offers a splendid general introduction to the historical and sociological life of the island. There are approximately 1000 entries of non-standard or dialect words, past and present. The notes deal with usage, pronunciation, alternate forms and spellings, and stylistic and regional labels. Entries include definitions, supportive quotations from P.E.I. sources, editorial notes about various subtleties, and dictionary notes which provide links to some thirty-five other dictionaries. Pratt's introduction defines the criteria for inclusion of words, explains his research methods, and outlines the layout of entries. The end matter includes a bibliography and an important sociolinguistic essay, 'The Dictionary in Profile,' which places the work in the broader context of Prince Edward Island speech. Its range and depth of coverage make this an essential work not only for those concerned with P.E.I. and Maritimes studies, but for all those interested in the regional usage of English.
Author : Ian McKay
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773583306
The popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure, simple, idyllic people is false, argues Ian McKay. In The Quest of the Folk he shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project traditional folk values. McKay offers an in-depth analysis of the infusion of a folk ideology into the art and literature of the region and the use of the idea of the "Simple Life" in tourism promotion. He examines how Nova Scotia's cultural history was rewritten to erase evidence of an urban, capitalist society, class and ethnic differences, and women's emancipation. In doing so he sheds new light on the roles of Helen Creighton, the Maritime region's most famous folklorist, and Mary Black, an influential handicrafts revivalist, in creating this false identity.
Author : Ian McKay
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773575431
Ian McKay shows how the tourism industry & cultural producers have manipulated the cultural identity of Nova Scotia to project traditional folk values. He offers analysis of the infusion of folk ideology into the art & literature of the region, & the use of the idea of the 'simple life' in tourism promotion.
Author : George Elliott Clarke
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487516789
Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field. Based on extensive excavations of archives and texts, this challenging passage through twelve essays presents a history of the literature and examines its debt to, and synthesis with, oral cultures. George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues for its relevance to both African Diasporic Black and Canadian Studies, and critiques several of its key creators and texts. Scholarly and sophisticated, the survey cites and interprets the works of several major African-Canadian writers, including André Alexis, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Claire Harris, and M. Nourbese Philip. In so doing, Clarke demonstrates that African-Canadian writers and critics explore the tensions that exist between notions of universalism and black nationalism, liberalism and conservatism. These tensions are revealed in the literature in what Clarke argues to be – paradoxically – uniquely Canadian and proudly apart from a mainstream national identity. Clarke has unearthed vital but previously unconsidered authors, and charted the relationship between African-Canadian literature and that of Africa, African America, and the Caribbean. In addition to the essays, Clarke has assembled a seminal and expansive bibliography of texts – literature and criticism – from both English and French Canada. This important resource will inevitably challenge and change future academic consideration of African-Canadian literature and its place in the international literary map of the African Diaspora.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UOM:39015068860710
Author : William J. Davey,Richard MacKinnon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Canadianisms
ISBN : 9781442615991
The first regional dictionary devoted to the island s linguistic and cultural history, the Dictionary of Cape Breton English is a fascinating record of the island s rich vocabulary. "
Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1150 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Americanisms
ISBN : 041525938X
Entry includes attestations of the head word's or phrase's usage, usually in the form of a quotation. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Tom Dalzell,Terry Victor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317372523
Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X001534341
Author : Diane Tye
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773580619
A unique work that is both profoundly personal and intellectually informed, Baking as Biography reminds us of the unwritten social and material ingredients behind even the most straightforward recipes for cookies and squares."--pub. desc.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UOM:39015061574490