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Título
He towd her soe monny a mad farrant Tele: On flotsam, respellings and the enregisterment of l-vocalisation and /a/+nasal in the Late Modern Lancashire dialect
Autor(es)
Materia
flotsam
respelling
enregisterment
Lancashire dialect
Late Modern English
Clasificación UNESCO
5702.01 Lingüística Histórica
Fecha de publicación
2020
Editor
Università degli Studi di Milano
Citación
Ruano-García, Javier. 2020. «He Towd Her Soe Monny a Mad Farrant Tele: On Flotsam, Respellings and the Enregisterment of L-Vocalisation and /A/+nasal in the Late Modern Lancashire Dialect». Altre Modernità, gennaio, 16-34. https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/12740.
Resumen
This paper addresses the concept of flotsam in relation to language by examining the non-standard spellings used in a selection of literary representations of the Lancashire dialect written in the Late Modern English period. The analysis is placed within the framework of enregisterment and indexicality, which I explore in combination with recent sociolinguistic approaches to the study of orthography. Attention is paid to two of the frequently occurring features in these speech recreations (l-vocalisation and the rounding of /a/+nasal), arguing that the respellings employed to represent them can be taken as instances of flotsam in that they contribute to highlighting and enregistering linguistic differences.
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ISSN
2035-7680
DOI
https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/12740
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