Stanley Ellis Papers

Description

This series consists primarily of papers relating to the compilation of a Fishing Questionnaire used in a survey coordinated by Ellis through the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) in 1966. Other items relate to Ellis's involvement in the Survey of English Dialects (SED), as well as his teaching and publishing activities. An appreciation written by colleagues to mark Ellis's retirement is also included. Although he was the principal fieldworker for the Survey of English Dialects, and involved in language teaching and the supervision of dialect-related theses, relatively few documents exist in the LAVC that were created by Stanley Ellis.

System of arrangement

The series has been arranged in the following subseries:

- Fishing Questionnaire

- Miscellaneous Papers

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Related material

A number of papers were deposited with the LAVC by Stanley Ellis in 2002. These have been incorporated into the Non-Student Papers subfonds as follows:

- G. B. Adams' paper on Ulster English (1965): LAVC/NSP/2

- R. C. Alston's paper on bibliography and historical linguistics (1965): LAVC/NSP/3

- The Center for Applied Linguistics' Ford Foundation proposals (1965): LAVC/NSP/9

- Detroit Dialect Society progress report (1966): LAVC/NSP/10

- Margaret Gelling's paper on English placenames (1973): LAVC/NSP/16

- W. T. W. Potts' paper on history and blood groups in Britain (1973): LAVC/NSP/35

- William A. Stewart's paper on urban Negro speech in the United States (1965): LAVC/NSP/39

- Peter Wade-Martin's paper on rural settlement in East Anglia (1973): LAVC/NSP/42

- Louise White's paper on dialectal features in D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (1977): LAVC/NSP/44



Stanley Ellis's B.A. dissertation on the living dialect of Kettlewell (1951), LAVC/SRP/2/202; and his M.A. thesis on the living dialects of Lincolnshire (1952), LAVC/SRP/1/110.


A notebook of illustrations used by Stanley Ellis as a visual aid in eliciting responses from informants to the SED questionnaire is held at LAVC/FLF/19/25, and in photocopy form at LAVC/FLF/19/11.


Stanley Ellis's audio field recordings for the SED are contained in LAVC/SRE; his ms. field recordings for the SED are held amongst the SED fieldwork response books in LAVC/SED/2/2.


Photographs of Northumbrian SED informants, probably taken by Stanley Ellis, are held at LAVC/PHO/P1865 -1875.


A photograph of a house in Knaresborough by Stanley Ellis is held at LAVC/PHO/P1876.


Photographic images of Stanley Ellis interviewing Tom Mason of Addingham Moorside are held at LAVC/PHO/P1983 (contact prints) and LAVC/ARC/3/10 (over-sized print; item-level record at LAVC/PHO/P2164).


A photograph of delegates at a dialectology conference in Marburg in 1965, including Stanley Ellis, is held at LAVC/PHO/P2145.


Photographs taken in 1962 at the SED press conference for the launch of the first volume of the Northern Counties Basic Material, and including Stanley Ellis, are held at LAVC/PHO/P2148 -2150.


Maps produced by Stanley Ellis, and possibly used for teaching purposes, are held in the series LAVC/MAP/3.