Undergraduate Dissertations

Description

Bachelor of Arts dissertations submitted in partial fulfillment of degrees in English (including dialectology) and Special Studies in English (Scheme D), also including projects by occasional overseas students. A large proportion of these folklore, folk life and dialect studies contain printed items, photographs, diagrams and sketches, correspondence, maps and audio transcriptions.


The studies of individual dialect localities, supervised by Harold Orton and later Stanley Ellis, follow an identical format, and were seen as supplementing the localities covered by the Survey of English Dialects. These studies, entitled 'The Living Dialect of...', comprise an introduction to the locality (often with accompanying maps, photographs and notes on informants), sections describing the sounds of the dialect, the development of Middle English sounds, tabular summaries of Old English, Middle English, Scandinavian and Old French equivalents of stressed vowels in the dialect, a Word List and appendices containing photographs, drawings, phonetic and orthographic transcriptions of any accompanying sound recordings. Orton and Ellis' ms. comments/corrections are evident throughout these studies.

Provenance

Theses and dissertations held by the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS) were originally arranged according to a classification system adapted from the Uppsala Real Register (Swedish folklife classification scheme), comprising eighteen folklife sections (each represented by the letter(s) AA - R). The Institute appended a Dialect section. Items relating to the Institute's adaptation and revision of the the Uppsala Register are held within LAVC/ARC/1/11, LAVC/ARC/2/7-9 and LAVC/ARC/2/14-15.

System of arrangement

The original Uppsala Real Register (Swedish folklife classification scheme) order has been retained. Within each section, items are arranged chronologically, and alphabetically by author.


Bound volumes are shelved, unboxed; unbound items have been removed from their original clip folders, re-filed and boxed.

Access and usage

Reproduction

Access

The theses and dissertations in this subfonds are available for consultation in the searchroom of Special Collections, University of Leeds, by all bona fide researchers. Conditions relating to access and use have, in a number of cases, been applied to particular items by individual depositors. These are noted within the relevant individual records.

Material in this collection is in copyright. Photocopies or digital images can only be supplied by the Library for research or private study within the terms of copyright legislation. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain the copyright holder's permission to reproduce for any other purpose. Guidance is available on tracing copyright status and ownership.

Related material

Accompanying fieldwork sound recordings are held within LAVC/SRE. These comprise original/copy recordings held in quarter-inch open reel and audio cassette formats. Original field tape recordings relating to particular dialect studies were copied onto gramophone discs during the 1950s and 1960s by Henry Ellis, Senior Technician in the Department of Phonetics, University of Leeds. In some cases the original recordings were made for students by Stanley Ellis, with the disc copy used by the student for transcription purposes. The discs are held within LAVC/SRE/D.


Survey of English Dialects Questionnaire Response books relating to some of the localities chosen by students for dialect study are held in LAVC/SED/2/2. Other related folklife and dialect items are held in the Folk Life File, LAVC/FLF. In all cases, reference is made to any accompanying items in individual file-level records.

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