The Linguistic Landscape of North East England

This is a research project on the visual representation of North East dialect in the public domain. So far, most research on the language of the road signs, advertising hoardings, street names, shop signs, graffiti and other written messages which make up the linguistic landscape of a given area has focused on issues surrounding multilingualism. In contrast, this project focuses on the use of vernacular North East English grammar, lexis and orthography in public settings. There is a 'crowd-sourcing' element to the project: if you see any instances of dialect use, please consider sending me a photo at mike.pearce@sunderland.ac.uk (with details of where it was taken) and it will be added to the website. If you prefer not to take a photo, just tell me what you saw and where you saw it and I'll try to track it down myself.