North East Vernacular English Online

Drawing on thousands of naturalistic online interactions from Ready to Go , a popular football message board centred on North East England, North East Vernacular English Online describes dialect at the levels of morphology, syntax, lexis and – through a study of orthographic innovation – phonology, charting historical continuities as well as more recent developments.Pearce also examines metalinguistic commentary and debate on the website, revealing folk-attitudes and perceptions of linguistic va