Wuthering Heights (1847)

Brontë, Emily

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“…The representations of ‘Yorkshire’ dialect in the LD texts are similar to those in the DL in that they also demonstrate non-standard respellings. For example, in Wuthering Heights , Brontë (1847: 11) presents the character of Joseph, who speaks in Yorkshire dialect: ‘Bud yah're a nowt, and it's noa use talking – yah'll niver mend uh yer ill ways; bud, goa raight tuh t’ divil’, where nowt appears for ‘nothing’, and we again see DAR represented in t’ divil ‘the devil’.…”

Section: Yorkshire Dialect Corporamentioning

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‘Deregisterment’ and ‘fossil forms’: the cases of gan and mun in ‘Yorkshire’ dialect

Cooper¹

2016

English Today

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Recent work in sociolinguistics has illustrated that language features can become explicitly linked with numerous and multiple social values for certain speakers1. These language features can include pronunciations, words, or phrases, and the kind of associated social values can include social class or geographical region, notions of aesthetics or correctness, or more abstract concepts like ‘authenticity’ or ‘friendliness’. When speaker awareness leads to the linking of language features with social values in this way, the features may have undergone enregisterment, defined by Agha (2003: 231) as ‘processes through which a linguistic repertoire becomes differentiable within a language as a socially recognized register of forms’. I will focus here on the explicit association of a geographical location, Yorkshire2, with a distinct set of language features.

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Section: Yorkshire Dialect Corporamentioning

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‘Deregisterment’ and ‘fossil forms’: the cases of gan and mun in ‘Yorkshire’ dialect

Cooper¹

2016

English Today

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“…Jack goes on to state 'the key word in descriptions of him is "gipsy"'. 26 This looks like a contradiction, but is it? A relevant insight may be gleaned from a recent study in international relations: Iver Neumann's Uses of the Other: The East in European Identity Formation.…”

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Mapping the mind: Borders, migration and myth

Fraser

2003

Wasafiri

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“…However, she comes to resist her apparent fate, displaying remarkable resilience in the face of subjugation and misery. In one scene, she tells the old servant Joseph that she has 'progressed in the Black Art' and threatens him with black magic (Brontë [1847(Brontë [ ] 2003). 2 Her assertion that she is a witch, which she employs as a strategy to claim agency and thereby to empower herself, is surprising.…”

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“…Subsequent references to Wuthering Heights (Brontë [1847(Brontë [ ] 2003 are indicated by WH and the relevant page numbers.…”

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Cathy’s Subversive ‘Black Art’ in Emily Brontë’sWuthering Heights

Myburgh

2018

English Academy Review

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In this article, I argue that, in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847), the 'witch' motif is used to explore the novel's depiction of nineteenth-century anxieties surrounding threats to patriarchy and of expectations around women's domesticity and role in society. I show how Cathy Heathcliff (née Linton), who is called a 'witch' by various men in the novel, appropriates the role of witch, drawing on vestiges of medieval superstition to resist the patriarchal order, to gain authority, and to assert her position at the Heights when she is dispossessed of her patrimony and physically and emotionally abused by Heathcliff, and is verbally attacked by his servant Joseph. I posit that the narrative's references to the use of 'witchcraft' in relation to Cathy are integral to its engagement with debates concerning the role of women in male-controlled social contexts, the subversion of male domination, and the empowerment of women.

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Wuthering Heights (1847)

Cited by 11 publications

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‘Deregisterment’ and ‘fossil forms’: the cases of gan and mun in ‘Yorkshire’ dialect

‘Deregisterment’ and ‘fossil forms’: the cases of gan and mun in ‘Yorkshire’ dialect

Mapping the mind: Borders, migration and myth

Cathy’s Subversive ‘Black Art’ in Emily Brontë’sWuthering Heights

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