Sound Recordings, West Yorkshire

Description

Male and female informant responses to a questionnaire used by the collector as part of his sociolinguistic inquiry in Leeds. For the purposes of data collection, the city was divided into a number of geographical cells, and each informants' cell number is announced ahead of their recorded answers. The collector's field recording method involved starting and stopping the tape before and after the answer to each of the questionnaire's seventy-one questions. Free conversation with each informant is recorded after the completion of the questionnaire. The dates when the recordings were made is not known.


[Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talk of schoolboy prank on a train [another male also contributes]. [Tr. 1]


[Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about various accidents, involving trams, ammonia and cars. [Tr. 2]


[Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about her daughter and her friend going missing [reference to the Moors Murders]. [Tr. 3]


[Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about nearly being run over; humorous anecdote about her boss. [Tr. 4]


[Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about her godmother and lost mittens. [Tr. 5]


[Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about nearly being run over. [Tr. 6]


[Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about a car accident; refereeing rugby matches. [Tr. 7]


Female relates a humorous work-related anecdote; [collector announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about school dinners, a problematic pupil and a teacher's fur coat. [Tr. 8]


[Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; anecdotes relating to a near car accident and a scoutmaster. [Tr. 9]


[Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about hospital; working in a tannery; improvement in working conditions, Unions and leather-buffing. [Tr. 10]


[Collector announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about driving in snow; mistaken identity on leaving a train. [Tr. 11]


[Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about slicing liver; walking through fog [husband also contributes]. [Tr. 12]


[Collector announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about a bathroom incident involving her husband [husband also contributes]. [Tr. 13]


[Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about travelling by bus. [Tr. 14]


[Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about travelling on the Tube in London; a trip to New York. [Tr. 15]


[Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about a near accident when working on a train; a colleague's prank [wife also contributes]. [Tr. 16]


[Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about delivering potatoes. [Tr. 17]


[Collector announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about her Golden Wedding anniversary; [collector announcement]; further talk of the anniversary. [Tr. 18]


[Informant announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; talks about making tights as a child. [Tr. 19]


[Collector announcement]; female informant's questionnaire responses; relates an incident involving a car, lorry and a bus. [Tr. 20]


[Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about stays in hospital; injuries from falling from a ladder [wife also contributes]. [Tr. 21]


[Informant announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about working in [?Waterloo] Colliery and being trapped by a roof fall; explains reasons for roof falls; fatalities; competing in a colliery athletics team. [Tr. 22]


[Collector announcement]; male informant's questionnaire responses; talks about leading a youth trip up Helvellyn in the Lake District, getting caught in a snow storm and finding way back down. [Tr. 23]


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Related material

Copies of the typed questionnaire, report on the sampling methods used, and conclusions, are held at LAVC/NSP/19 and in the Audio Related Items file LAVC/SRE/ARI/063.

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