Gunnel Melchers

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gunnel Melchers is involved.

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Writing in Nonstandard English

Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta

This book investigates linguistic variation as a complex continuum of language use from standard to nonstandard. In our view, these notions can only be established through mutual definition, and they cannot exist without the opposite pole. What is considered standard English changes according to… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 67] 2000. viii, 403 pp.

Melchers, Gunnel 2012 ‘Nornomania’ in the research on language in the Northern Isles Language Contact and Development around the North Sea, Stenroos, Merja, Martti Mäkinen and Inge Særheim (eds.), pp. 213–230 | Article

‘Nornomania’ refers to the alleged obsession with the Scandinavian (‘Norn’) heritage in research on the dialects of Orkney and Shetland, as first addressed by Smith (1996). This paper explores the impact of a ‘Norn bias’ on dialect research devoted to the Northern Isles, from Jakobsen’s monumental… read more

Melchers, Gunnel 2010 Southern English in writing Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 81–98 | Article

This chapter deals with written evidence of regional varieties of language representing the middle and southern parts of England. ‘Southern English’ is here taken in a very wide sense, basically equivalent to ‘non-Northern’ and thus constituting a companion piece to the previous chapter. For two… read more

Melchers, Gunnel 2010 Review of Mesthrie & Bhatt (2008): World Englishes. The Study of New Linguistic Varieties Functions of Language 17:2, pp. 295–305 | Review

Melchers, Gunnel 2008 Review of Millar (2007): Northern and Insular Scots English World-Wide 29:3, pp. 347–351 | Review

Clarke, Sandra and Gunnel Melchers 2005 Ingressive particles across borders: Gender and discourse parallels across the North Atlantic Dialects Across Borders: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002, Filppula, Markku, Juhani Klemola, Marjatta Palander and Esa Penttilä (eds.), pp. 51–72 | Article

Melchers, Gunnel 2000 Dedialectalisation and Norfolk Dialect Orthography Writing in Nonstandard English, Taavitsainen, Irma, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. 323–330 | Article

Taavitsainen, Irma and Gunnel Melchers 2000 Preface Writing in Nonstandard English, Taavitsainen, Irma, Gunnel Melchers and Päivi Pahta (eds.), pp. vii–viii | Preface

Melchers, Gunnel 1987 Spelling and Dialect Orthography and Phonology, Luelsdorff, Philip A. (ed.), pp. 187–214 | Article

Melchers, Gunnel 1985 Language attitudes in the Shetland Islands Focus on Scotland, Görlach, Manfred † (ed.), pp. 87–100 | Article