Enregisterment In Historical Contexts: Nineteenth Century Yorkshire Dialect

Cooper, Paul ORCID: 0000-0002-3657-7384 (2015) Enregisterment In Historical Contexts: Nineteenth Century Yorkshire Dialect. Dialectologia, 14 (14). pp. 1-16.

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Abstract

This paper argues that textual data from historical periods can be evidence of indexicality (Silverstein 2003) and enregisterment (Agha 2003), and that repertoires of enregistered features can be identified in historical contexts. A repertoire of features that was enregistered as “Yorkshire” to nineteenth century audiences is identified using a corpus of nineteenth century Yorkshire dialect material. This data is compared with data from a corpus of modern Yorkshire dialect material and an online survey of current speakers’ perceptions of Yorkshire dialect. Similar patterns as those seen in the modern Yorkshire dialect data can be observed in analogous data from the nineteenth century. Therefore, features of Yorkshire dialect which occur frequently in the historical corpus and metapragmatic discourse were enregistered in the nineteenth century.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	indexicality, enregisterment, Yorkshire, dialect, corpus
Subjects:	?? P1 ??
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	02 Nov 2015 10:59
Last Modified:	17 Dec 2022 01:27
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/2034740