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