Handout — Dickens Dialect Project

11 works | Orthographic variation, style and characterisation

Corpus

Nicholas Nickleby, The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Martin Chuzzlewit, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Our Mutual Friend, Barnaby Rudge, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, Sketches by Boz

From spelling to character

Candidate forms → proposed standardisation → quotation depth → speaker identification → form–speaker network. Whole-text form counts must not be confused with the character’s actual frequency of use.

WorkFormsLinks
Nicholas Nickleby183204
The Pickwick Papers3976
Oliver Twist4164
Martin Chuzzlewit2947
David Copperfield3650
Bleak House4561
Our Mutual Friend3345
Barnaby Rudge1927
Hard Times6474
Little Dorrit2429
Sketches by Boz4252

Observations on five newly added works

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