The world has got some hint of her country speechOn the Enregisterment of the ‘Northern Dialect’
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Universidad de Salamanca
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- María Luisa Carrió Pastor (ed. lit.)
- Miguel Ángel Candel Mora (ed. lit.)
Publisher: Universidad Politécnica de Valencia = Universitat Politècnica de València
ISBN: 978-84-694-6225-6
Year of publication: 2011
Pages: 587-595
Congress: Congreso Internacional de Lingüistica de Corpus (3. 2011. Valencia)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
This paper analyses literary representations of northern English through the lens of enregisterment. It examines the repertoire of features that have commonly been identified as northern and have thus contributed to the enregisterment of the dialect. For this purpose, I shall undertake a corpus-based analysis of early modern plays included in the Salamanca Corpus. My aim is twofold. Firstly, to identify the most recurrent northern traits of the representations. Secondly, to show that dialect writing, though much neglected for linguistic analysis, gives insights into language variation and attitudes. In fact, these texts are inextricable from the historico-linguistic context in which they were produced, and from the attitude(s) towards the ‘other’ English which was reproduced.