Dialect Writing and the North of England / / Patrick Honeybone, Warren Maguire.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Honeybone, Patrick,; Maguire, Warren,
• MitwirkendeR: Asprey, Esther,; Bailey, George,; Beal, Joan,; Braber, Natalie,; Clark, Urszula,; Cooper, Paul,; Crowley, Tony,; Grieve, Jack,; Guo, Diansheng,; Hermeston, Rod,; Hodson, Jane,; Honeybone, Patrick,; Jensen, Marie Møller,; Maguire, Warren,; Nini, Andrea,; Timmis, Ivor,; Watson, Kevin,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474442572; 9783110780413
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474442572
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Patrick Honeybone, Warren Maguire.

Investigates how dialect variation is represented in writing Analyses examples from 18th century literary texts through to 21st century textingDraws 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.