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2.1. Aims of the Chapter 2.1. Aims of the Chapter
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2.2. The Black Country Region 2.2. The Black Country Region
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2.3. Overview of Variation in the Black Country Dialect 2.3. Overview of Variation in the Black Country Dialect
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2.4. Dialect Literature and Literary Dialect in the Black Country 2.4. Dialect Literature and Literary Dialect in the Black Country
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2.5. Data Sources 2.5. Data Sources
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2.6. Indexicality and Enregisterment 2.6. Indexicality and Enregisterment
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2.7. Variables 2.7. Variables
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2.9. Interpretation of Results 2.9. Interpretation of Results
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2.10. Dialect Features in Literature 2.10. Dialect Features in Literature
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2.11. Indexicality and Enregisterment 2.11. Indexicality and Enregisterment
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2.12. Discussion and Future Directions for Research 2.12. Discussion and Future Directions for Research
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2 Black Country Dialect Literature and What It Can Tell Us about Black Country Dialect
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Published:August 2020
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This chapter examines Black Country dialect literature. It looks at the small amount of dialect poetry published in the 19th century, most of which appeared in local newspapers, and compares it with earlier protest songs from the 18th century, most of which were collected and written down in the 1960s by the folksingers Michael and Jon Raven. It looks also at dialect songs circulated in broadsheet form at the annual wakes in the Black Country, some of which were written especially for the event, to examine what we can say about grammatical and phonological change both across time in the Black Country and within the Black Country itself. The chapter cautions against inferring too much from historical data which can only tell us that variants were known, rather than being evidence of their use in the speech community.
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