Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. List of figures and tables ix
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. I. Enregisterment
7. 2. Northern English and enregisterment 17
8. 3. Dickens and northern English: stereotyping and ‘authenticity’ reconsidered 41
9. 4. The linguistic landscape of north-east England 61
10. 5. Lenition and T-to-R are differently salient: the representation of competing realisations of /t/ in Liverpool English dialect literature 83
11. II. Phonology
12. 6. External and internal factors in a levelling process: Prevocalic (r) in Carlisle English 111
13. 7. Scouse NURSE and northern happy: vowel change in Liverpool English 135
14. III. Syntax and discourse features
15. 8. Are Scottish national identities reflected in the syntax of Scottish newspapers? 169
16. 9. Final but in northern Englishes 191
17. IV. Sociolinguistics
18. 10. Education, class and vernacular awareness on Tyneside 215
19. 11. Changing domains of dialect use: A real-time study of Shetland schoolchildren 245
20. V. Language and corpus
21. 12. New perspectives on Scottish Standard English: Introducing the Scottish component of the International Corpus of English 273
22. Index 303