Language Variation
Task B - our answer to question 3
Why is Standard English not being used?
Because the novel is a 1st-person narration on the part of a woman who
comes from a working class, Northern Irish background, it needs to be
narrated in this marked dialectal form. If the novel had been a 3rd-person
narration, no such character-related reason could be given and readers
would be much more likely to assume that a political point was being made
- the writer would be making a point of not writing in Standard English
for some reason.
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