New Survey of Dialectal English Memorandum
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Type of record: Archive
Title: New Survey of Dialectal English Memorandum
Classmark: LAVC/STA/3/2/1
Creator(s): Dieth, Eugen (1893-1956); Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
Date(s): 1952
Size and medium: 1 file of typed papers.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409881
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
A paper (8 leaves) compiled by Eugen Dieth and Harold Orton, and dated 22 February 1952, on the aims and objectives of, and fieldwork methodologies to be used in, research for the Survey of English Dialects. The paper is headed 'A New Survey of Dialectal English. A Memorandum on the Researches of the Leeds Centre for the Study of English Dialects'. Ms. notes at the top of the first page mark the paper as confidential and intended for Stanley Ellis. The paper includes sections on the aims of the Survey, the type of English to be recorded; the time-factor involved; the method of investigation; the role of the fieldworker; the informants; the questionnaire; interviewing techniques; the selection of localities for recording; the working of the scheme proposed; the present state of work conducted from Leeds; and finance.
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