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Haliburton’S Eye and Ear

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Richard W. Bailey
Richard W. Bailey*
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University of Michigan
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Walter S. Avis was so thoroughly a Canadian that it is perhaps necessary to take special note of his contributions to the international community of scholars devoted to the study of English and the English-speaking peoples. Certainly his broad perspective is everywhere revealed in his scholarship. In his study of Canadian eh?, for instance, he speaks of the corpus he collected when his reading was “arbitrarily limited to books in my own library, to newspapers and periodicals that passed normally through my hands, to radio and TV programs, and to such oral examples as I had the opportunity to observe and set down” (1978:174). Yet such “arbitrary limits” encompassed writers and speakers who represent Britain, Canada, the United States, South Africa, and Australia and covered uses from the eighteenth century to the present. With the best of scholars, Avis was meticulous, thorough, wide-ranging, and devoted to the real evidence of real people speaking and writing.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 26 , Issue S1 , Spring 1981 , pp. 90 - 101
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1981

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