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

  1. Javier Ruano García 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
    info

    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Journal:
Altre Modernità: Rivista di studi letterari e culturali

ISSN: 2035-7680

Year of publication: 2020

Issue: 1

Pages: 16-34

Type: Article

DOI: 10.13130/2035-7680/12740 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

More publications in: Altre Modernità: Rivista di studi letterari e culturali

Abstract

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 (/-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.

Data source: Dialnet