Questionnaire Response Books
Description
This subseries contains the original response books in which the Survey of English Dialects (SED) fieldworkers recorded informants' responses to the Dieth-Orton Questionnaire. A response book exists for each of the 313 villages and towns included in the SED National Network of Localities. The field recordings were made in ms. using the International Phonetic Alphabet. Responses were recorded on specially-prepared loose sheets. Each sheet is divided at the centre with the left side intended for informants responses (with relevant remarks and explanations by the fieldworker), and the right for 'incidental material' (i.e. any other significant terms and expressions of relevance to the Survey). The survey is based around a questionnaire with 9 themed chapters: The Farm; Farming; Animals; Nature; The House and Housekeeping; The Human Body; Numbers, Time and Weather; Social Activities; States, Actions, Relations. Many of the response books also include additional notes, sketches and diagrams made by the fieldworker in order to clarify objects and utensils referred to.
Metadata
| Identifier | kj9qpzl6 |
| IRN | 409595 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SED/2/2 |
| Level | Sub-series |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/kj9qpzl6 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Questionnaire Response Books and Related Papers |
| Date | 1950-1961 |
| Size and Medium | 50 magazine files with 313 ms. response books., 5.25 linear metres. |
| System of Arrangement | The response books are housed in magazine files in SED county and locality order. The archival identification numbers assigned to files and individual response books reflects the numbering assigned to SED counties and localities. |