Dialect File
Description
This series contains items deposited in the Dialect File. In addition to papers on aspects of dialects and language, in particular English and United States English, the series includes glossaries of Devon, Spennymoor (Durham) and Black Country dialects; papers on Shelta, and on Gaelic; copies of 'Sawdsheet', a periodical focussing on Anglo-Welsh language and literature; Clive Upton's questionnaire on the language of the meat trade; papers by Charles James N. Bailey on Southern States English; illustrations used by Stanley Ellis as visual aids for the Survey of English Dialects (SED) questionnaire; papers on Cambridgeshire speech; documentation relating to and transcriptions of SED sound recordings; Gerald Keil's paper on computerised phonetic transcription; copies of the Ulster Dialect Archive's bulletin; papers by Harold Orton on the SED and 'The Linguistic Atlas of England' (LAE); Open University course documentation; a report on linguistic research in progress at Macquarie University; a list of historic dialect pamphlets at Keele University; articles and reviews of the LAE, used for display at the 1998 Harold Orton Centenary Conference (mostly photocopied); a paper by Folke Hedblom on research into Swedish language and traditions in the United States; papers relating to runic carvings and inscriptions; and dialect- and linguistics-related pamphlets, offprints and reprints.
Metadata
| Identifier | zblrnqqm |
| IRN | 410838 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/19 |
| Level | Series |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/zblrnqqm |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Folk Life File |
| Date | [1933-1998] |
| Size and Medium | 3 boxes with 35 files of typed, photocopied and ms. papers, pamphlets, reprints, offprints, magazine extracts and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings., 1.23 linear metres. |
| System of Arrangement | This File was appended to the Folk Life File, but is not included in its classification system. There does not seem to have been any specific arrangement imposed by the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies archivists on the Dialect File. |