On the enregisterment of the Lancashire dialect in Late Modern English: Spelling in focus

Ruano–García, Javier

doi:10.1515/jhsl-2018-0024

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“…Third-order indexicality shows enregisterment of those socially meaningful features, which are the object of overt comment and public representation, and are thus ‘deployed as part of deliberate and reflexive identity performances’ (Bucholtz & Lopez 2011: 681) that include dialect writing. Indeed, literary representations of dialect show speakers’ awareness of, as well as ideas about and attitudes towards, regional speech in the form of metalanguage, either explicitly with remarks about the dialect or implicitly in the self-conscious act of the representation itself (see Beal 2009; Cooper 2020; Ruano-García 2020; Schintu 2022).…”

Section: Enregisterment and Indexicality In Nineteenth-century Repres...mentioning

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‘Well, taakin about he da bring inta me yead wat I promised var ta tell ee about’: representations of south-western speech in nineteenth-century dialect writing

Ruano–García¹

2023

English Language and Linguistics

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This article explores representations of south-western speech in nineteenth-century dialect writing. It draws on a selection of specimens from the Salamanca Corpus in order to determine what they can tell us about the language of south-western speakers at this time. By focusing on periphrastic do and pronoun exchange, I argue that representations of south-western dialects can be taken as a missing link in the history of these two grammatical features. In fact, the analysis of their distribution and frequency, which this article explores in dialect writing for the first time, shows that they accord with later evidence to an interesting degree. At the same time, the data are placed within the third-wave sociolinguistic models of enregisterment and indexicality so as to show that the conscious representation of these morphosyntactic features reflects contemporary perceptions about their use in south-western dialects while they reveal indexical associations between place, speaker and speech. This article thus seeks to contribute to the history of south-western dialects, while underscoring the validity of dialect writing as a source of Late Modern English speech where the structural and ideological dimensions of dialect intersect.

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Section: Enregisterment and Indexicality In Nineteenth-century Repres...mentioning

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‘Well, taakin about he da bring inta me yead wat I promised var ta tell ee about’: representations of south-western speech in nineteenth-century dialect writing

Ruano–García¹

2023

English Language and Linguistics

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“…So far, scholarly work on historical dialect enregisterment has been chiefly concerned with literary representations of speech, with special emphasis on varieties of English (see e.g. Beal, 2009;Cooper, 2013;Ruano-García, 2020;Schintu, 2020), alongside some work on American (Picone, 2014) and IrE. We may refer to Hickey (2016: 31-34), who provides a historical overview of the most relevant phonological (e.g.…”

Section: The Enregisterment Of Irish Englishmentioning

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Linguistic Perceptions of Irish English in Nineteenth-century Emigrant Letters

Amador-Moreno,

Ruano-García

2023

Int. j. Engl. stud.

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In this paper we look at the real voices of Irish English speakers in the nineteenth century. By turning to the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (McCafferty & Amador-Moreno, 2012), we analyse the perceptions that letter writers had of their own language use. We apply a micro-perspective analysis to the language of John Kerr, an Irish emigrant to America, in his letters to his uncle James Graham of Newpark (Co. Antrim, N. Ireland). We examine Kerr’s incisive comment on language use alongside metacommentary found in different Late Modern works, including dictionaries, essays on Irish English, as well as contemporary fictional representations of the variety of English spoken in Ireland during this period. Through this small batch of letters, we explore how the real voices of Irish English speakers echoed an enregistered Irish repertoire that may have raised awareness shaping their perceptions of their own dialect.

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“…Research on this phenomenon in historical contexts, though, has received less attention. Relevant examples are Asprey (2020), Beal (2009Beal ( , 2012Beal ( , 2016Beal ( , 2020, Cooper (2013Cooper ( , 2016Cooper ( , 2020, Beal and Cooper (2015), Ruano-García (2012, 2021, and Schintu (2020), who have explored older varieties of British English. Further works on historical enregisterment include Picone (2014), Amador-Moreno and McCafferty (2015), and Paulsen (2022), which have been concerned with Irish and American dialects.…”

Section: From Language To Social Asset: the Notions Of Indexicality A...mentioning

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Dialect in the Making

Schintu Martínez

2023

Int. j. Engl. stud.

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Within the framework of third-wave sociolinguistic research, Asif Agha’s (2003) theory of enregisterment has proved a successful approach to explore the mechanisms that lead to the indexical connection between language and identity. Beal (2009, 2020), Cooper (2013, 2020), and Ruano-García (2012, 2020, 2021), among others, have investigated this phenomenon from a diachronic perspective. They have highlighted the value of dialect writing as a window into the main features associated with particular dialects, as it draws upon authenticating practices such as the use of dialect respellings, which not only signal salient phonological features, but also link them to wider schemes of sociocultural values and identities. This paper seeks to add to this field of research by looking at literary representations of Derbyshire speech (1850–1900) through the lens of enregisterment. My aims are twofold: I attempt to (1) shed light on the main phonological features of the Derbyshire dialect, while (2) determining how this variety was enregistered in the Late Modern English period, and whether meaningful text type-dependent indexical shifts might have affected the way in which this dialect was understood and thus represented by native and non-native speakers.

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On the enregisterment of the Lancashire dialect in Late Modern English: Spelling in focus

Cited by 6 publications

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‘Well, taakin about he da bring inta me yead wat I promised var ta tell ee about’: representations of south-western speech in nineteenth-century dialect writing

‘Well, taakin about he da bring inta me yead wat I promised var ta tell ee about’: representations of south-western speech in nineteenth-century dialect writing

Linguistic Perceptions of Irish English in Nineteenth-century Emigrant Letters

Dialect in the Making

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