J D A Widdowson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 25209 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J D A Widdowson |
| NOMBRES | J D A |
| APELLIDO | Widdowson |
| FIRMA | WIDDOWSON J D A |
| AFILIACIONES | English Heritage |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1964 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
New Beginnings
The study of folklore in England stands at a crossroads. Is it content with its current activities and achievements, or should it make a determined effort to move forward? A subject pioneered in this country, which gave it its name and early academic reputation, seems in danger of losing momentum. Its mission lacks a common purpose, and tends to be fragmented, and the discipline as a whole has largely been ineffectual in asserting its social and …
Studies in Linguistic Geography
Studies in Linguistic Geography (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics)
The publication in the past ten years of linguistic atlases of England and Scotland has not only advanced our knowledge of the lexical and morphological variety inherent in the English language, but has made it possible to establish a number of methodological principles for the study of language both in its contemporary distribution and in its historical evolution. The essays in this volume, by contributors to the linguistic atlases and other dia…
Stumbling into folklore more than 50 years ago
They Say in Harlan County
By Alessandro Portelli, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, 446 pp., $34.95 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-199-73568-6 By any standards, this is a remarkable and compelling work. Alessandro Portelli, alrea...
Tales from New England
Making Witches
By Barbara Rieti, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008, 184 pp., £25.99/CAN$34.95 (hbk), ISBN 9-780-77353-360-8 The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, originally Britain's f
Folklore Studies in English Higher Education
The study of folklore, founded and developed by British scholars, has struggled to establish itself in the higher education sector in England. An exploration of the reasons behind this anomaly suggests that, far from being a lost cause, there are new opportunities to secure a permanent place for the discipline in the academy and in the public sphere. Notes [1] Conference on Teaching Folklore: Exploring the Relevance of Cultural Traditions in Educ…
Folktales in Newfoundland Oral Tradition
It is often thought that while England has a rich heritage of legends, it lacks the range and variety of the Märchen found in the great nineteenth-century collections. The survival of such folktales in oral tradition in Newfoundland provides clear evidence that these narratives were once commonplace in England and Ireland and were transferred to the New World. Although the basic plots of the tales are similar to published versions in European col…
Little Jack and Other Newfoundland Folktales
Herbert Halpert, 1911–2000
a Born in New York City on 23 August 1911, Herbert Halpert became interested in folklore in his teens. This led him to undertake fieldwork on childlore for his M.A. in Anthropology on Folk Rhymes of New York City Children at Columbia University, where he studied with Ruth Benedict and George Herzog. Subsequently, he collected folk songs and folk narratives in New Jersey; a study of the narratives became his doctoral dissertation, Folktales and Le…
An Atlas of English Dialects
Survey of English Dialects
The Eleventh Hour? Monitoring the English Rural Tradition in the 1990s and Beyond
It is something of an irony that in many ways the rural tradition in English life was studied more intensively and systematically a century ago than is the case today. The burgeoning of scholarly interest in language, history, tradition and society at both local and national level in the late nineteenth century provided a wealth of data for modern researchers across a wide range of disciplines. While some of this material inevitably appears dated…
English Language and Folklore
(1990). English Language and Folklore: A National Resource. Folklore: Vol. 101, No. 2, pp. 209-220
English Dialects and Folklore
IT IS a privilege, and indeed a pleasure, to speak on this annual occasion commemorating the life and work of Dr. Katharine Briggs who was a staunch champion of folklore studies and a tireless ambassador of the Folklore Society both in the British Isles and overseas. She did much to maintain the standards of British folklore scholarship, not least in the uneasy years of transition during which both the discipline and the Folklore Society itself f…
Advances in Cartographic Dialectology
The Linguistic Atlas of England
If You Don't Be Good
The Linguistic Atlas of England
If You Don't Be Good
The Bogeyman
A given aspect of cultural tradition can rarely, if ever, be studied in isolation. No matter from what viewpoint the researcher approaches his subject he finds himself inevitably involved with its wider ramifications. Beliefs, traditions, language and many other aspects of human culture interweave and interrelate to such an extent that no single isolated approach can be definitive. It is therefore with a great deal of trepidation and considerable…
Some items of a Central Newfoundland dialect
Although a preliminary survey of the vocabulary and pronunciation of a Central Newfoundland dialect is the chief concern of this paper, some tentative observations about the development of Newfoundland dialect as a whole may perhaps also be put forward here. Both the terms discussed and the observations made are based primarily on a field-trip made in the Summer of 1963 as part of the expanding programme of research in dialect, toponymy, and folk…
The Linguistic Atlas of England
They Say in Harlan County
By Alessandro Portelli, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, 446 pp., $34.95 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-199-73568-6 By any standards, this is a remarkable and compelling work. Alessandro Portelli, alrea...
English Dialects and Folklore
IT IS a privilege, and indeed a pleasure, to speak on this annual occasion commemorating the life and work of Dr. Katharine Briggs who was a staunch champion of folklore studies and a tireless ambassador of the Folklore Society both in the British Isles and overseas. She did much to maintain the standards of British folklore scholarship, not least in the uneasy years of transition during which both the discipline and the Folklore Society itself f…
New Beginnings
The study of folklore in England stands at a crossroads. Is it content with its current activities and achievements, or should it make a determined effort to move forward? A subject pioneered in this country, which gave it its name and early academic reputation, seems in danger of losing momentum. Its mission lacks a common purpose, and tends to be fragmented, and the discipline as a whole has largely been ineffectual in asserting its social and …
Folklore Studies in English Higher Education
The study of folklore, founded and developed by British scholars, has struggled to establish itself in the higher education sector in England. An exploration of the reasons behind this anomaly suggests that, far from being a lost cause, there are new opportunities to secure a permanent place for the discipline in the academy and in the public sphere. Notes [1] Conference on Teaching Folklore: Exploring the Relevance of Cultural Traditions in Educ…
English Language and Folklore
(1990). English Language and Folklore: A National Resource. Folklore: Vol. 101, No. 2, pp. 209-220
The Bogeyman
A given aspect of cultural tradition can rarely, if ever, be studied in isolation. No matter from what viewpoint the researcher approaches his subject he finds himself inevitably involved with its wider ramifications. Beliefs, traditions, language and many other aspects of human culture interweave and interrelate to such an extent that no single isolated approach can be definitive. It is therefore with a great deal of trepidation and considerable…
Some items of a Central Newfoundland dialect
Although a preliminary survey of the vocabulary and pronunciation of a Central Newfoundland dialect is the chief concern of this paper, some tentative observations about the development of Newfoundland dialect as a whole may perhaps also be put forward here. Both the terms discussed and the observations made are based primarily on a field-trip made in the Summer of 1963 as part of the expanding programme of research in dialect, toponymy, and folk…
The Bogeyman
A given aspect of cultural tradition can rarely, if ever, be studied in isolation. No matter from what viewpoint the researcher approaches his subject he finds himself inevitably involved with its wider ramifications. Beliefs, traditions, language and many other aspects of human culture interweave and interrelate to such an extent that no single isolated approach can be definitive. It is therefore with a great deal of trepidation and considerable…
The Linguistic Atlas of England
If You Don't Be Good
If You Don't Be Good
The Linguistic Atlas of England
English Dialects and Folklore
IT IS a privilege, and indeed a pleasure, to speak on this annual occasion commemorating the life and work of Dr. Katharine Briggs who was a staunch champion of folklore studies and a tireless ambassador of the Folklore Society both in the British Isles and overseas. She did much to maintain the standards of British folklore scholarship, not least in the uneasy years of transition during which both the discipline and the Folklore Society itself f…
Advances in Cartographic Dialectology
The Eleventh Hour? Monitoring the English Rural Tradition in the 1990s and Beyond
It is something of an irony that in many ways the rural tradition in English life was studied more intensively and systematically a century ago than is the case today. The burgeoning of scholarly interest in language, history, tradition and society at both local and national level in the late nineteenth century provided a wealth of data for modern researchers across a wide range of disciplines. While some of this material inevitably appears dated…
English Language and Folklore
(1990). English Language and Folklore: A National Resource. Folklore: Vol. 101, No. 2, pp. 209-220
Survey of English Dialects
An Atlas of English Dialects
Herbert Halpert, 1911–2000
a Born in New York City on 23 August 1911, Herbert Halpert became interested in folklore in his teens. This led him to undertake fieldwork on childlore for his M.A. in Anthropology on Folk Rhymes of New York City Children at Columbia University, where he studied with Ruth Benedict and George Herzog. Subsequently, he collected folk songs and folk narratives in New Jersey; a study of the narratives became his doctoral dissertation, Folktales and Le…
Little Jack and Other Newfoundland Folktales
Folktales in Newfoundland Oral Tradition
It is often thought that while England has a rich heritage of legends, it lacks the range and variety of the Märchen found in the great nineteenth-century collections. The survival of such folktales in oral tradition in Newfoundland provides clear evidence that these narratives were once commonplace in England and Ireland and were transferred to the New World. Although the basic plots of the tales are similar to published versions in European col…
Making Witches
By Barbara Rieti, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008, 184 pp., £25.99/CAN$34.95 (hbk), ISBN 9-780-77353-360-8 The Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, originally Britain's f
Folklore Studies in English Higher Education
The study of folklore, founded and developed by British scholars, has struggled to establish itself in the higher education sector in England. An exploration of the reasons behind this anomaly suggests that, far from being a lost cause, there are new opportunities to secure a permanent place for the discipline in the academy and in the public sphere. Notes [1] Conference on Teaching Folklore: Exploring the Relevance of Cultural Traditions in Educ…
Tales from New England
They Say in Harlan County
By Alessandro Portelli, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, 446 pp., $34.95 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-199-73568-6 By any standards, this is a remarkable and compelling work. Alessandro Portelli, alrea...
Studies in Linguistic Geography
Studies in Linguistic Geography (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics)
The publication in the past ten years of linguistic atlases of England and Scotland has not only advanced our knowledge of the lexical and morphological variety inherent in the English language, but has made it possible to establish a number of methodological principles for the study of language both in its contemporary distribution and in its historical evolution. The essays in this volume, by contributors to the linguistic atlases and other dia…
Stumbling into folklore more than 50 years ago
New Beginnings
The study of folklore in England stands at a crossroads. Is it content with its current activities and achievements, or should it make a determined effort to move forward? A subject pioneered in this country, which gave it its name and early academic reputation, seems in danger of losing momentum. Its mission lacks a common purpose, and tends to be fragmented, and the discipline as a whole has largely been ineffectual in asserting its social and …
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