Graphie, phonie et encodage dialectal : le Cockney de Somerset Maugham dans Liza of Lambeth

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to show the similarity between pronunciation spelling and dialect encoding. It appears that the grapho-phonological manipulations present in fictional texts also exist in the English language. In Somerset Maugham’s Liza of Lambeth, only three types of dialect encoding (grapheme insertion, suppression and substitution) are sufficient to encode the Cockney dialect.

Keywords

• dialect encoding
• pronunciation spelling
• phonostyle
• institutional spelling