TY  - JOUR
A1  - Percillier, Michael
A1  - Paulin, Catherine
T1  - Postcolonial literature and world Englishes : a corpus-based approach of modes of representation of the non-standard in writing
T2  - International journal of literary linguistics : IJLL
N2  - The present study investigates the representation of non-standardised varieties of English in literary prose texts. This is achieved by creating and annotating a corpus of literary texts from Scotland, West Africa, and Southeast Asia. The analysis addresses two major topics. Firstly, the extent of representation reveals clearly distinct feature profiles across regions, coupled with varying feature densities. Feature profiles are also relevant to individual characters, as certain traits such as social status, ethnicity, or age can be signalled by linguistic means. The second topic, accuracy of representation, compares the features observed in literary texts with descriptions of the actual varieties, and suggests that representations of varieties may differ from their real-life models in the sense that highly frequent features may be absent from texts, while less frequent but more emblematic ones, or even invented ones, may be used by authors to render a variety of English in their texts.
KW  - World Englishes
KW  - varieties of English
KW  - Postcolonial writing
KW  - stylistics
KW  - representation
KW  - literary corpus
KW  - non-standard features
KW  - regional profiles
KW  - character profiles
KW  - representation accuracy
KW  - register
KW  - code-mixing
KW  - code-switching
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - West Africa, Scotland
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48420
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-484207
SN  - 2194-5594
N1  - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
VL  - 6
IS  - 1, Art. 3
SP  - 1
EP  - 24
PB  - Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
CY  - Mainz, Germany
ER  -