Honors Program
Honors in English
Date of Award
5-2022
Thesis Professor(s)
Theresa McGarry
Thesis Professor Department
Literature and Language
Thesis Reader(s)
David Korfhagen, Rebecca Adkins Fletcher
Abstract
The research studies the Southern Appalachian dialect present in five poems in Melissa Range’s Scriptorium: Poems. The linguistic phenomena characteristic of Southern Appalachian English observed and analyzed in the poems include lexicon, grammatical features, and phonological aspects. The research seeks to bring attention to this Appalachian woman writer as well as to bring understanding of her reasoning behind incorporating the dialect in her poetry. It establishes that the five poems by Range contain the lexicon, grammatical features, and phonological aspects of the SAE dialect. It holds meaning both grammatically and pragmatically within the context of the poem and Appalachia.
Publisher
East Tennessee State University
Document Type
Honors Thesis - Open Access
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
White, Jolee, "A Claiming of Kin: A Linguistic Analysis of Southern Appalachian English in Melissa Range's Scriptorium: Poems" (2022). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 675. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/675
Copyright
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