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'This is an excellent collection, containing state of the art analyses of the popular representations of often overlooked varieties of English. The treatment is cutting edge, both in knowledge base and in methodologies.'
Robert McColl Millar, University of Aberdeen
Analysing examples from 18th century literary texts through to 21st century social media, this is the first comprehensive collection to explore dialect writing in the North of England. The book also considers broad questions about dialect writing in general: What is it? Who does it? What types of dialect writing exist? How can linguists interpret it?
Bringing together a wide range of contributors, the book investigates everything from the cultural positioning and impact of dialect writing to the mechanics of how authors produce dialect spellings (and what this can tell us about the structure of the dialects represented). The book features a number of case studies, focusing on dialect writing from all over the North of England and considering a wide range of types of text, including dialect poetry, translations into dialect, letters, tweets, direct speech in novels, humorous localised volumes, written reports of conversations and cartoons in local newspapers.
Patrick Honeybone and Warren Maguire are both Senior Lecturers in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh.
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1. Introduction: What is dialect writing? Where is the North of England?
Patrick Honeybone & Warren Maguire
2. Black Country dialect literature and what it can tell us about Black Country dialect
Esther Asprey
3. Dialect and the construction of identity in the ego-documents of Thomas Bewick
Joan Beal
4. Nottingham: City of Literature. Dialect Literature and Literary Dialect
Natalie Braber
5. Enregistering dialect representation in Staffordshire Potteries' cartoons
Urszula Clark
6. Russian dolls and dialect literature: the enregisterment of nineteenth century 'Yorkshire' dialects
Paul Cooper
7. Representing the language of Liverpool; or, the (im)possibility of dialect writing
Tony Crowley
8. Metaphor and Indexicality in The Pitman's Pay: the ambivalence of dialect
Rod Hermeston
9. 'Did she say dinner, Betsey, at this taam o'day?': representing Yorkshire voices and characters in novels 1800-1836
Jane Hodson
10. Which phonological features get represented in dialect writing? Answers and questions from three types of Liverpool English texts.
Patrick Honeybone
11. Phonological analysis of early nineteenth century Tyneside Dialect Literature: Thomas Wilson's The Pitman's Pay
Warren Maguire
12. The graphical representation of phonological dialect features of the North of England on social media
Andrea Nini, George Bailey, Diansheng Guo and Jack Grieve
13. The Bolton/Worktown Corpus: a case of accidental dialectology?
Ivor Timmis
14. Automatic analysis of dialect literature: advantages and challenges
Kevin Watson & Marie Møller Jensen
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Patrick Honeybone is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. Patrick has published articles in a range of journals including English Language and Linguistics, Lingua and Language Sciences and is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology (OUP, 2015).Warren Maguire is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Edinburgh. Warren has written a number of journal articles and book chapters and is co-editor of Analysing Variation in English (CUP, 2011).
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Investigates how dialect variation in the North of England is represented in writing.
