Northern English

Ruano–García, Javier; Sánchez-García, Pilar; Giner, María Fuencisla García-Bermejo

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“…Unlike respellings, however, lexical and grammatical choices involve less authorial elaboration and intervention yet seem likewise constrained by tradition in some cases. Words such as gan/gang ‘to go’, lass ‘girl’ and mun ‘must’ have been conventionalised in representations of the northern dialects since the Early Modern English period, to which LModE writers contributed other items like nowt ‘nothing’ and summat ‘something’, which were recurrently used (Ruano-García et al 2015: 144–5). In fact, such traditional items were indexically powerful resources not only to evoke northernness, but also the transitional character of dialects like that of Derbyshire, which lies at the crossroads between the Midlands and the North.…”

Section: Representing Dialect Speech In Nineteenth-century Dialect Wr...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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‘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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“…Forms in –sen are rarer with a narrower distribution focused on Yorkshire – where it is an enregistered feature (Cooper 2019) – and Lancashire, but they are also to be found in the East and West Midlands (Upton et al, 1994: 488–489). Both – sel and – sen are identified as ‘pan-northernisms’ by Ruano–García, Sanchez–García and García–Bermejo Giner (2015: 145).…”

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The participatory vernacular web and regional dialect grammar

Pearce¹

2020

English Today

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English dialects demonstrate considerable variation in their pronominal systems (see for example Trudgill & Chambers, 1991 and Hernández, 2011). In England, pronouns in the north east of the country – the urban areas of Tyne and Wear and Teesside and the counties of Durham and Northumberland (hereafter NEE) – are often different from those found in Standard English (SE). The most extensive modern accounts of NEE pronouns are Beal (1993) and Beal, Burbano–Elizondo and Llamas (2012), but because they appear in chapters dealing with a wide range of morphosyntactic topics, the coverage is necessarily brief. This article is able to offer a more detailed overview of the morphology of NEE pronouns, based on a sizeable naturalistic corpus of vernacular writing.

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Shaping the Other in the Standardization of English

Ruano–García

2020

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This paper explores the other side of standardization by looking at one of the early modern regional varieties of English that remained outside the “consensus dialect” (Wright, 2000: 6). Drawing on Agha’s (2003) framework of enregisterment, I examine a selection of literary representations of the ‘northern’ dialect that are now included in The Salamanca Corpus (García-Bermejo Giner et al., 2011–), as well as contemporary lexicographical evidence on northern words. My aim is to provide a window into contemporary ideas that saw and constructed the North as the ‘other’, whilst showing, as a result, that such views were immediately relevant to how the dialect and their speakers were imagined and represented alongside the emerging standard. To do so, I undertake a twofold quantitative and qualitative analysis of the evidence to identify the repertoire of forms that were associated with the dialect and the values attributed to such forms.

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Northern English

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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

The participatory vernacular web and regional dialect grammar

Shaping the Other in the Standardization of English

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