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Smith, Charlotte (1800)
Adventure; Courtship; Manners / Society; Travel; Liverpool; Jamaica; London and fashionable society;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Metalanguage
Extract #1 dialect features: Metalanguage
This little girl, however, (for she is but twelve years old) I have attempted to instruct, when I could enough command my spirits to attend to any thing: but she is so ignorant, so much the creature either of origin or habit, that I cannot make her comprehend the simplest instruction, and our lesson generally ends in her begging of me some ribbon, feather, or other trifling ornament, which I give her on promising to attend more another time: -- a promise which she never remembers. [Henrietta is here commenting on one of her mixed-race half-sisters
(Vol. 2,p. 58-59)
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Smith, Charlotte (1800)
Adventure; Courtship; Manners / Society; Travel; Liverpool; Jamaica; London and fashionable society;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Metalanguage
Extract #1 dialect features: Metalanguage
They speak an odd sort of dialect, more resembling that of the negroes than the English spoken in England; and their odd manners, their love of finery, and curiosity about my clothes and ornaments, together with their total insensibility to their own situation is, I own, very distressing to me. [Henrietta is here commenting on one of her mixed-race half-sisters]
(Vol. 2,p. 57-58)
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Smith, Charlotte (1800)
Adventure; Courtship; Manners / Society; Travel; Liverpool; Jamaica; London and fashionable society;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Metalanguage
Extract #1 dialect features: Metalanguage
This little girl, however, (for she is but twelve years old) I have attempted to instruct, when I could enough command my spirits to attend to any thing: but she is so ignorant, so much the creature either of origin or habit, that I cannot make her comprehend the simplest instruction, and our lesson generally ends in her begging of me some ribbon, feather, or other trifling ornament, which I give her on promising to attend more another time: -- a promise which she never remembers. [Henrietta is here commenting on one of her mixed-race half-sisters]
(Vol. 2,p. 58-59)
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Smith, Charlotte (1800)
Adventure; Courtship; Manners / Society; Travel; Liverpool; Jamaica; London and fashionable society;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Metalanguage
Extract #1 dialect features: Metalanguage
"I was immediately surrounded by men of various shades of colour; negroes, maroons, quadroons, I knew not what. One among them, who was evidently their chief, advanced towards me, spoke to me in English, and by his voice and manner, tried to re-assure me. All the recollection and presence of mind I could command did not, however, serve to give me any confidence of safety. I seemed to have been delivered from one evil, only to have fallen into another. The noises, gestures, the eager manner of these strange people filled me with terror and dismay."
(Vol. 2,p. 140)
35
Smith, Charlotte (1800)
Adventure; Courtship; Manners / Society; Travel; Liverpool; Jamaica; London and fashionable society;
Dialect Speakers
3.
interlocutor
Dialect Features:Discourse Marker, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling
Extract #1 dialect features: Discourse Marker, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling
[â¦] I inquired of Amponah, one of the few servants in the house to whom I can speak , who that person was. The poor fellow appeared to be surprised at my question, and answered, " Master not tell you , Miss?" I said I should not have inquired, but that I had forgotten his name. " Ah, Miss, Miss! " replied Amponah, " dat man is one day no'ther to be our master." â "Your master, Amponah?" â "Yes: master give him you , Miss, and all this great rich estates and pens and all ."
(Vol. 2,p. 62-63)
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Smith, Charlotte (1800)
Adventure; Courtship; Manners / Society; Travel; Liverpool; Jamaica; London and fashionable society;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Metalanguage
Extract #1 dialect features: Metalanguage
Speakers: All , Mr Denbigh
I had, from a boy, understood a little of their wild jargon, and now fancied they spoke of their women, and of white women whom their chief had made captives in their late excursion among the plantations to the north.
(Vol. 2,p. 120)
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Smith, Charlotte (1800)
Adventure; Courtship; Manners / Society; Travel; Liverpool; Jamaica; London and fashionable society;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Metalanguage
Extract #1 dialect features: Metalanguage
Speakers: All , Mr Denbigh
I heard three of four hoarse voices salute my host in a language of which I understood nothing but two or three words, and those hostile, borrowed from the negro English of the colonies. My friend answered them in the same jargon in a mild and manly tone [â¦]
(Vol. 2,p. 140)
38
Smith, Horatio (1800)
Courtship; Domestic; Manners / Society; Social Commentary; Gloucestershire;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Codeswitch, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling, Vocabulary
Extract #1 dialect features: Codeswitch, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction, Orthographical Respelling, Vocabulary
Speakers: All , Sir Thomas's man
"Make thyself easy," replied the man, "and I'se wull tell thee all about un . Thee seest as how muster Morris was coming to thee wi' some good news, but met wi' a mizvortune on the road, and is at a house hard by wi' muster Zummers , zo don't be alarmed."
In a few minutes they crossed a common, and arrived at a lonely cottage.
The man got off his horse, and opening the door, desired Clarissa to walk in.
Clarissa, although oppressed by a thousand fears, was necessitated to comply.
Having reached the interior of the cottage, she was conducted to a room.
"There," said the man, handing her a chair and assuming his own dialect , " sit down ."
(Vol. 3,p. 74-5)In a few minutes they crossed a common, and arrived at a lonely cottage.
The man got off his horse, and opening the door, desired Clarissa to walk in.
Clarissa, although oppressed by a thousand fears, was necessitated to comply.
Having reached the interior of the cottage, she was conducted to a room.
"There," said the man, handing her a chair and assuming his own dialect , " sit down ."
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Smith, Horatio (1800)
Courtship; Domestic; Manners / Society; Social Commentary; Gloucestershire;
Dialect Speakers
Dialect Features:Codeswitch, Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Respelling
"I had considered on what plan was best to pursue, and concluded the most probable means to gain admittance would be by artifice.
"When I arrived at the house, I rung the bell at the outer gate; a servant attended, who demanded my business.
"I pulled off my hat, and, scratching my head, assumed the west-country dialect : " I'se be come ," said I, " vrom Zur Tummus ; he said as how he should want me, and desired I'se would wait here vor un ."
This kind of language ," continued Bridport, "and the boorish method I practised, together with my making use of Sir Thomas's name, had the desired effect."
(Vol. 3,p. 106-107)"When I arrived at the house, I rung the bell at the outer gate; a servant attended, who demanded my business.
"I pulled off my hat, and, scratching my head, assumed the west-country dialect : " I'se be come ," said I, " vrom Zur Tummus ; he said as how he should want me, and desired I'se would wait here vor un ."
This kind of language ," continued Bridport, "and the boorish method I practised, together with my making use of Sir Thomas's name, had the desired effect."
40
Bisset, Robert (1804)
Didactic / Moralising; Political; Satirical; Yorkshire; Brighton; Grantham; Gloucestershire;
Dialect Speakers
1.
Betty - Maid
Dialect Features:Discourse Marker, Grammar, Idiom, Metalanguage, Orthographical Respelling, Vocabulary
Extract #1 dialect features: Discourse Marker, Grammar, Idiom, Metalanguage, Orthographical Respelling, Vocabulary
Betty, with the pert flippancy and consequential self-importance of a waiting-maid exalted into confidence , first asked what he had done with his sweetheart, and then, putting her hand in her side and elevating her face, declared that a gentleman such as he oft to be ashamed of himself for keeping company with sich nasty low trollops .
[some narrative omitted]
"Ah! my dear Miss Sukey, were I to give my humble opinion, I think he is nothing to come into compolisom with Mr. O'Rourke. Mr Roger is both more taller and more properer ; he has the fear of God before his eyes, he is in a state of grace, and is moreover the best built, the best shouldered, and the best limbed man one can see in a summer's day; he is consarned for the good of your soul. If you had seen him how grievously he took to it when you went away without once speaking to him, you would have bepitied the poor youth. Were I as you, Madam, I would give over all thought of your ungrateful cousin and give my mind up to Mr O'Rourke. He converted you to a state of grace, and enlightened you with the knowledge of the gospel. He would be a loving and a cherishing husband, and not be running after such gilflirts under your nose."
(Vol. 1,p. 132-34)[some narrative omitted]
"Ah! my dear Miss Sukey, were I to give my humble opinion, I think he is nothing to come into compolisom with Mr. O'Rourke. Mr Roger is both more taller and more properer ; he has the fear of God before his eyes, he is in a state of grace, and is moreover the best built, the best shouldered, and the best limbed man one can see in a summer's day; he is consarned for the good of your soul. If you had seen him how grievously he took to it when you went away without once speaking to him, you would have bepitied the poor youth. Were I as you, Madam, I would give over all thought of your ungrateful cousin and give my mind up to Mr O'Rourke. He converted you to a state of grace, and enlightened you with the knowledge of the gospel. He would be a loving and a cherishing husband, and not be running after such gilflirts under your nose."