Yorkshire Dialect in the Nineteenth Century: Enregisterment, Authenticity, and Identity [Hardcover]

This book draws on a framework of enregisterment and indexicality to chart the ways in which the Yorkshire dialect came to be associated with particular linguistic repertoires and social stereotypes from the nineteenth century through to today.

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Paul Cooper is Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of Liverpool, UK.

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1        Introduction

1.1     Linguistic features of Yorkshire dialect

1.1.1  Definite Article Reduction

1.1.2  H-dropping

1.1.3  Realisation of the GOAT diphthong

1.1.4  Realisation of the FACE diphthong

1.1.5  Additional phonological features

1.1.6  Grammatical features and lexical items

1.2     Yorkshire identity

1.2.1  Aims of this book

1.3     Methodological considerations

1.3.1  Qualitative analysis

1.3.2  Quantitative analysis

1.3.3  Corpus of nineteenth-century Yorkshire dialect (CoNCYD)

1.3.4  Nineteenth-century Yorkshire repertoires

1.4     Conclusions

 

2        Yorkshire dialect and social values

2.1     Indexicality and enregisterment

2.2     Processes of enregi