6 Russian Dolls and Dialect Literature: The Enregisterment of Nineteenth-Century ‘Yorkshire’ Dialects

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Notes on Contributors x
5. 1 Introduction: What Is Dialect Writing? Where Is the North of England? 1
6. 2 Black Country Dialect Literature and What It Can Tell Us about Black Country Dialect 29
7. 3 Dialect and the Construction of Identity in the Ego-documents of Thomas Bewick 51
8. 4 Nottingham: City of Literature – Dialect Literature and Literary Dialect 75
9. 5 Enregistering Dialect Representation in Staffordshire Potteries’ Cartoons 103
10. 6 Russian Dolls and Dialect Literature: The Enregisterment of Nineteenth-Century ‘Yorkshire’ Dialects 126
11. 7 Representing the Language of Liverpool; or, the (Im)possibility of Dialect Writing 147
12. 8 Metaphor and Indexicality in The Pitman’s Pay: The Ambivalence of Dialect 168
13. 9 ‘Did She Say Dinner, Betsey, at This Taam o’Day?’: Representing Yorkshire Voices and Characters in Novels 1800–1836 188
14. 10 Which Phonological Features Get Represented in Dialect Writing? Answers and Questions from Three Types of Liverpool English Texts 211
15. 11 Phonological Analysis of Early-Nineteenth- Century Tyneside Dialect Literature: Thomas Wilson’s The Pitman’s Pay 243
16. 12 The Graphical Representation of Phonological Dialect Features of the North of England on Social Media 266
17. 13 The Bolton/Worktown Corpus: A Case of Accidental Dialectology? 297
18. 14 Automatic Analysis of Dialect Literature: Advantages and Challenges 316
19. Index 351