The Terminology of Walling in Craven

Description

A study of occupational language in the Craven area of Yorkshire, based on interviews with informants from Silsden, Stainforth, Horton in Ribblesdale, Clapham and Hawes. The Introduction contains three sections, giving information on the history and geology of the area, and a description of the dry stone walling process. This is followed by sections containing descriptions of sounds and phonetics, and geographical, semantic and etymological analyses of thirty-four walling terms (or notions). Such analysis includes for each notion a list of the different words recorded during fieldwork, transcribed orthographically and phonetically for each of the five locations. An Appendix contains pen drawings of wall heads, the face of a stone, a wall section, a gate and a stile, walling tools and wall patterns.

Metadata

Identifier ks8yn8ph
IRN 410244
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/2/208
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/ks8yn8ph
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Undergraduate Dissertations
Creator(s) Feather, John J
Date 1954
Size and Medium 72 unbound typed leaves; 1 b/w photograph.

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