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Title Dialect writing and the North of England / edited by Patrick Honeybone aand Warren Maguire
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
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Contents Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- 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 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
Summary Investigates how dialect variation in the North of England is represented in writing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Dialect literature, English -- England, Northern -- History and criticism -- Congresses
English language -- Dialects -- England, Northern -- Congresses
Electronic books.
e-books.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
Dialect literature, English
English language -- Dialects
Language.
Northern England
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Honeybone, Patrick (Patrick George), editor.
Maguire, Warren, editor.
ISBN 9781474442572
1474442579
9781474442589
1474442587