Dialect Writing and the North of England

Patrick Honeybone; Warren Maguire

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

Dialect Writing and the North of England

Patrick Honeybone and Warren Maguire

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474442572

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Investigates how dialect variation is represented in writing

Analyses examples from 18th century literary texts through to 21st century texting
Draws on a range of sources including diaries, blogs, poetry, direct speech in fiction and cartoons in local newspapers
Considers the cultural positioning and impact of dialect writing and investigates the mechanics of how authors produce dialect writing

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, 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.

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Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
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1 Introduction: What Is Dialect Writing? Where Is the North of England? Patrick Honeybone and Warren Maguire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Black Country Dialect Literature and What It Can Tell Us about Black Country Dialect Esther Asprey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3 Dialect and the Construction of Identity in the Ego-documents of Thomas Bewick Joan Beal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
4 Nottingham: City of Literature – Dialect Literature and Literary Dialect Natalie Braber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
5 Enregistering Dialect Representation in Staffordshire Potteries’ Cartoons Urszula Clark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
6 Russian Dolls and Dialect Literature: The Enregisterment of Nineteenth-Century ‘Yorkshire’ Dialects Paul Cooper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
7 Representing the Language of Liverpool; or, the (Im)possibility of Dialect Writing Tony Crowley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
8 Metaphor and Indexicality in The Pitman’s Pay: The Ambivalence of Dialect Rod Hermeston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
9 ‘Did She Say Dinner, Betsey, at This Taam o’Day?’: Representing Yorkshire Voices and Characters in Novels 1800–1836 Jane Hodson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
10 Which Phonological Features Get Represented in Dialect Writing? Answers and Questions from Three Types of Liverpool English Texts Patrick Honeybone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
11 Phonological Analysis of Early-Nineteenth- Century Tyneside Dialect Literature: Thomas Wilson’s The Pitman’s Pay Warren Maguire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
13 The Bolton/Worktown Corpus: A Case of Accidental Dialectology? Ivor Timmis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
14 Automatic Analysis of Dialect Literature: Advantages and Challenges Kevin Watson and Marie Møller Jensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 368
Keywords: Language & Linguistics

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474442572