In Your Words: Dialect, People and Places
Wednesday 17th November 6.30pm – 8.00pm ONLINE
Book now: http://eastanglianlife.org.uk/events/...
Some of our words are inherited from the people and places of our birth or childhood; others we pick up along the way. If we move around with family, or for work or study, sometimes we adopt new words from other people and other places. Join Laura Kloss, Engagement Officer from the Dialect and Heritage Project, for an introduction to the In Your Words- Dialect and Heritage Project, the Survey of English Dialects and the University Of Leeds Archive Of Vernacular Culture in this online workshop.
About the project
Have you ever seen a billywitch, bishy barnabee, harnser, hodmedod or tiddlywink?
Do you mash, soak or brew your tea?
Dialect is important. It connects us to people and places and shapes who we are. The words we use, how we put them together and how we say them matters – to us, to others and to the rich and ever-changing history of language.
Join us in November to discover more about dialect heritage, East Anglian dialects and share your own dialect at our events online and at the Museum in partnership with Being Human: a festival of the humanities and the University of Leeds’ Dialect and Heritage Project – In Your Words.
In Your Words is following in the footsteps of fieldworkers from the University of Leeds in the 1950s who visited people in 313 rural localities in England to complete The Survey of English Dialects (SED) – the most comprehensive survey of the dialects of England ever undertaken, and a snapshot of how English was spoken by people born as early as 1860.
Now, with support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, The Museum of East Anglian Life is a key partner in the project and is working with the University to open-up its extensive archives and to collect dialect from people across East Anglia and beyond. We want to find out what words and phrases are still in use and how they vary from place to place. The answers will help us build a picture of England’s ‘language landscape’ and the responses will be analysed by researchers at the University of Leeds.
This workshop is being hosted by the Dialect and Heritage Project at the University of Leeds, in partnership with the Museum of East Anglian Life, as a part of the Being Human Festival 2021 and the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences 2021. Further information:
Dialect and Heritage Project: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1607...
Being Human Festival: https://beinghumanfestival.org/
ESRC Festival of Social Sciences: https://festivalofsocialscience.com/
Image: This is Stanley Ellis, one of the original dialect fieldworkers from the 1950’s Survey with Tom Mason, who was interviewed as part of the project. “Stanley Ellis and Tom Mason” (LAVC/PHO/P2164) Held at Special Collections, Leeds University Library. Licensed under CC-BY-NC 4.0