Perspectives on Northern Englishes /

Perspectives on Northern Englishes / / ed. by Joan C. Beal, Sylvie Hancil.

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Northern English has been the object of much attention linguistically over the last thirty years but scholars have had a tendency to focus on the phonology of the dialects and varieties encountered. The purpose of the present volume is to complement and enrich the existing studies by providing reade...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Beal, Joan C.,
Durham, Mercedes,
Eyndhoven, Sarah van,
Fuchs, Robert,
Gut, Ulrike,
Hancil, Sylvie,
Hillberg, Sanna,
Honeybone, Patrick,
Jansen, Sandra,
Jensen, Marie Møller,
Juskan, Marten,
Pearce, Michael,
Schützler, Ole,
Wales, Katie,
Watson, Kevin,
HerausgeberIn:
Beal, Joan C.,
Hancil, Sylvie,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 96
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • List of contributors
  • List of figures and tables
  • 1. Introduction
  • I. Enregisterment
  • 2. Northern English and enregisterment
  • 3. Dickens and northern English: stereotyping and ‘authenticity’ reconsidered
  • 4. The linguistic landscape of north-east England
  • 5. Lenition and T-to-R are differently salient: the representation of competing realisations of /t/ in Liverpool English dialect literature
  • II. Phonology
  • 6. External and internal factors in a levelling process: Prevocalic (r) in Carlisle English
  • 7. Scouse NURSE and northern happy: vowel change in Liverpool English
  • III. Syntax and discourse features
  • 8. Are Scottish national identities reflected in the syntax of Scottish newspapers?
  • 9. Final but in northern Englishes
  • IV. Sociolinguistics
  • 10. Education, class and vernacular awareness on Tyneside
  • 11. Changing domains of dialect use: A real-time study of Shetland schoolchildren
  • V. Language and corpus
  • 12. New perspectives on Scottish Standard English: Introducing the Scottish component of the International Corpus of English
  • Index

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