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.

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.

• 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 Møller Jensen

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.

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.

• 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 Møller Jensen

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.

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.

• 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 Møller Jensen