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“Theers gud stuff amung uz Darbysher foaks”: Dialect enregisterment in 19th-century Derbyshire
Autor(es)
Materia
Derbyshire dialect
enregisterment
nineteenth century
dialect literature
literary dialect
Clasificación UNESCO
5702.01 Lingüística Histórica
Fecha de publicación
2020
Citación
Schintu Martínez, P. (2020). “Theers gud stuff amung uz Darbysher foaks”: Dialect enregisterment in 19th-century Derbyshire. Token: A Journal of English Linguistics, 10, 109-128.
Resumen
[EN] The textual material included in the Salamanca Corpus bears witness to dialectal awareness
in 19th-century Derbyshire, with an important number of literary texts that reflect the
local people’s habits of speech. Despite the fact that this variety ought to be of particular
interest since it was used in an area which marks the transition between the North of
England and the West Midlands, and the East and West Midlands, literary representations
of the Derbyshire dialect remain largely unexplored (García-Bermejo Giner 1991, 1993 is
the most remarkable exception). According to research in the field, the analysis of this
type of representation is crucial to investigate the processes of enregisterment of dialect
varieties, as Johnstone et al. (2006) and Johnstone (2009, 2013) have shown. They examine
the enregisterment of Pittsburghese by looking at non-standard discourse in a range
of modern sources. Less attention, however, has been paid to the study of this process
in historical contexts, the works by Beal (2009, 2017, 2019), Ruano-García (2012, 2020,
forthcoming), Clark (2013), Cooper (2013, 2016, 2020), and Beal – Cooper (2015) being
among the exceptions. This study takes a preliminary approach to the enregisterment of
19th-century Derbyshire dialect by examining a selection of instances of dialect writing,
most of which are included in the Salamanca Corpus. I aim at identifying the main linguistic
forms associated with this variety in terms of spelling, morphology and lexis, as well as
determining the extent to which 19th-century instances of dialect writing contribute to
the enregisterment and dissemination of such linguistic forms and the values they index.
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2299-5900
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