Dialect Writing and the North of England
Published on 15. September 2020
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-1-4744-4256-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
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. -- Professor Robert McColl Millar, University of AberdeenMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
703 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-4256-5 (9781474442565)
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Patrick Honeybone | Warren Maguire
Dialect Writing and the North of England
E-Book
09/2020
1st Edition
Edinburgh University Press
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Persons
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 a Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Edinburgh. Warren is Depute Director of the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics. He is co-editor of the journal English Language and Linguistics, author of Language and Dialect Contact in Ireland (EUP, 2020) and co-editor of Dialect Writing and the North of England (EUP, 2020). Warren is a leading expert in variation and change in dialects of English and Scots in Britain and Ireland.
Content
1. Introduction: What is dialect writing? Where is the North of England?Patrick Honeybone & Warren Maguire2. Black Country dialect literature and what it can tell us about Black Country dialectEsther Asprey 3. Dialect and the construction of identity in the ego-documents of Thomas BewickJoan Beal4. Nottingham: City of Literature. Dialect Literature and Literary DialectNatalie Braber 5. Enregistering dialect representation in Staffordshire Potteries' cartoonsUrszula Clark 6. Russian dolls and dialect literature: the enregisterment of nineteenth century 'Yorkshire' dialectsPaul Cooper 7. Representing the language of Liverpool; or, the (im)possibility of dialect writingTony Crowley 8. Metaphor and Indexicality in The Pitman's Pay: the ambivalence of dialectRod Hermeston 9. 'Did she say dinner, Betsey, at this taam o'day?': representing Yorkshire voices and characters in novels 1800-1836Jane 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 PayWarren Maguire 12. The graphical representation of phonological dialect features of the North of England on social mediaAndrea 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 challengesKevin Watson & Marie Moller Jensen