Dialect writing and the north of England / edited by Patrick Honeybone, Warren Maguire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Honeybone, Patrick, Author.

Contributor:

Honeybone, Patrick (Patrick George), editor.

Maguire, Warren, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Dialects--England, Northern.

English language.

Dialect literature, English--England, Northern.

Dialect literature, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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).

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: What Is Dialect Writing? Where Is the North of England?

2 Black Country Dialect Literature and What It Can Tell Us about Black Country Dialect

3 Dialect and the Construction of Identity in the Ego-documents of Thomas Bewick

4 Nottingham: City of Literature – Dialect Literature and Literary Dialect

5 Enregistering Dialect Representation in Staffordshire Potteries’ Cartoons

6 Russian Dolls and Dialect Literature: The Enregisterment of Nineteenth-Century ‘Yorkshire’ Dialects

7 Representing the Language of Liverpool; or, the (Im)possibility of Dialect Writing

8 Metaphor and Indexicality in The Pitman’s Pay: The Ambivalence of Dialect

9 ‘Did She Say Dinner, Betsey, at This Taam o’Day?’: Representing Yorkshire Voices and Characters in Novels 1800–1836

10 Which Phonological Features Get Represented in Dialect Writing? Answers and Questions from Three Types of Liverpool English Texts

11 Phonological Analysis of Early-Nineteenth- Century Tyneside Dialect Literature: Thomas Wilson’s The Pitman’s Pay

12 The Graphical Representation of Phonological Dialect Features of the North of England on Social Media

13 The Bolton/Worktown Corpus: A Case of Accidental Dialectology?

14 Automatic Analysis of Dialect Literature: Advantages and Challenges

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 5, 2022).

ISBN:

1-4744-9076-X

1-4744-4257-9

OCLC:

1306539435