ISBN: 080782318X
Godina izdanja: 1997
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Walt Wolfram, Natalie Schilling-Estes - Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue SIGNED COPY
University of North Carolina Press / Chapel Hill, 1997
165 str.
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`Hoi toide,` for those unfamiliar with the brogue, is Ocracoker for `high tide.` As many visitors to the island are quick to observe, this vibrant dialect - with its unusual pronunciation, vocabulary, and syntax - is one of Ocracoke`s most distinctive cultural features. In Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes set out to research the brogue and encourage the preservation and celebration of an important part of a community`s rich heritage. Its authors trace the dialect`s history and identify its unique features - even providing a glossary and quiz to augment the reader`s knowledge of Ocracoke speech. In the process, they also explore some larger questions on language and the role it plays in a culture`s efforts to define and maintain itself. But Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks is more than a linguistic study. Based on extensive interviews with more than seventy Ocracoke residents of all ages and illustrated with captivating photographs by Ann Ehringhaus and Herman Lankford, the book offers valuable insight on what makes Ocracoke special. In short, by tracing the history of island speech, the authors succeed in opening a window on the history of the islanders themselves.

Contents:
Illustrations
Maps
Tables
Preface
Epigraphs
1 The Roots of Ocracoke English
2 What`s in an O`cocker Word?
3 Sounding like a `Hoi Toider`
4 Saying a Word or Two
5 No Dialect Is an Island
6 Ebb Tide for Hoi Toide?
7 The Voices of Ocracoke
Appendix An Ocracoke IQ Test Or, How to Tell a Dingbatter from an O`cocker
References and Bibliographic Notes
Index

Natalie Schilling-Estes, who holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the project`s coordinator.

Walt Wolfram is William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of English at North Carolina State University and founder of the North Carolina Language and Life Project.


Americanisms, Linguistics Reference, Cultural Anthropology, Nonfiction, 080782318X, SIGNED COPY