Sound Recording, [West Yorkshire]

Description

[Collector announcement]; report on the proposed 'Linguistic Atlas of England', including an interview with Stewart Sanderson, Director of the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies, University of Leeds [?recorded in Leeds] and extracts from Survey of English Dialects (SED) field sound recordings. Collector's introduction; English language and its reach; the Survey of English Dialects [sample of Cheshire speaker]; comments on vocabulary and pronunciation, the diversity of English dialects; Stewart Sanderson talks about the SED publication programme; Basic Material volumes, the Linguistic Atlas (explains the use of word maps, and gives an example of a mapped word); the multi-disciplinary appeal of the proposed atlas; the collector talks about Eugen Dieth and Harold Orton and their compilation of an English dialect questionnaire; the editing of collected data; Sanderson talks about the atlas as giving the roots of all varieties of English; the collector talks about SED informants [sample of Norfolk speaker]; the cost of the SED; Sanderson on the value of the publications; reference to an anthology of sound recordings; tape recordings and transcriptions; Sanderson gives a number of examples from the collected data, illustrating Scandinavian influences on Northern English, variations in North/South pronunciation; the collector on the choice of informants; Sanderson on the decline in local dialects; the collector on a British Council/University of London survey; Sanderson on the importance of local and regional speech; the collector's fears for the English language; sample of Cheshire speaker.

Metadata

Identifier x1wb2s4m
IRN 414666
Class Mark LAVC/SRE/A615r
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/x1wb2s4m
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Audiotape Sound Recordings
Creator(s) Metcalfe, Robert
Date [1960-1975]
Size and Medium 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool, Duration: 17' 09".

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