Lancashire Dialect Examination in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton

AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies, Volume 4, Number2. May  2020                                   Pp.240-246
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol4no2.18

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Lancashire Dialect Examination in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton

 

Amina AZZOUZ
Department of English, Faculty of Letters and Languages
University of Tlemcen – Algeria

 Wassila HAMZA REGUIG-MOURO
Department of English, Faculty of Letters and Languages
University of Tlemcen – Algeria

 

 

Abstract:
Dialect and sociolinguistics have a mutual relationship considering language, with its varieties, a tool of characterization; one’s speech expresses one’s age, cultural and educational level, gender, social class, ethnic group, etc. Literature is the artistic field that holds all existing language diversities. Hence, some authors (like Dickens and Gaskell, and many others) embrace dialect employment in standard literary works stressing on its aesthetic function. The concern in this paper is on the novel Gaskell Mary Barton (1848), where Lancashire’s dialect is generously used. So, what does literary dialect means? What is the scope of Lancashire, and what are its features? How did Gaskell employ it? This paper aims at highlighting the phenomenon of literary dialect and how authors use it to achieve authenticity.
Keywords: Characterization, dialect, Elizabeth Gaskell, literary dialect, literature, Mary Barton

Cite as: AZZOUZ, A., & HAMZA REGUIG-MOURO,W. (2020). Lancashire Dialect Examination in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton. Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies 4 (2) 240-246 .
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awejtls/vol4no2.18

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