IJES 2023, v. 23, n. 2
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- PublicationOpen AccessConstructing identities and negotiating relationships in late eighteenth-century England : Mary Hamilton and her correspondents at court.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2023) Oudesluijs, Tino; Yáñez Bouza, NuriaDuring the eighteenth century, language became an increasingly valuable commodity for the construction of identities and the negotiation of relationships with others. Additionally, letter writing had emerged as a crucial means of maintaining relationships and forging deeper intimacy between individuals, and correspondence thus constitutes a rich resource for the study of language variation and change in relation to (social) identity, with forms of address as a key strategy in this respect. The current paper examines expressions of direct address and self-reference in Late Modern English ego-documents, more specifically two sets of letters involving Mary Hamilton (1756–1816), sub-governess at Court and a member of the Bluestocking circle. For each set, we discuss intra-speaker variation in the context of both the individual participants involved and the structure of the letters. The findings reveal different strategies through which Hamilton and her correspondents construct their identities and negotiate their relationships with each other, for example by using nicknames and terms of endearment, omitting signatures, or through changes in lexical choices over time.
- PublicationOpen AccessLinguistic perceptions of Irish English in nineteenth-century emigrant letters : a micro-perspective analysis of John Kerr's letters.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2023) Amador Moreno, Carolina Pilar; Ruano García, Francisco JavierIn this paper we look at the real voices of Irish English speakers in the nineteenth century. By turning to the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (McCafferty & Amador-Moreno, 2012), we analyse the perceptions that letter writers had of their own language use. We apply a micro-perspective analysis to the language of John Kerr, an Irish emigrant to America, in his letters to his uncle James Graham of Newpark (Co. Antrim, N. Ireland). We examine Kerr’s incisive comment on language use alongside metacommentary found in different Late Modern works, including dictionaries, essays on Irish English, as well as contemporary fictional representations of the variety of English spoken in Ireland during this period. Through this small batch of letters, we explore how the real voices of Irish English speakers echoed an enregistered Irish repertoire that may have raised awareness shaping their perceptions of their own dialect.
- PublicationOpen AccessContextualising Third-Wave Historical Sociolinguistics.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2023) García Vidal, Tamara
- PublicationOpen AccessA community of practice in the Mercers of the City of London : catching the third sociolinguistic wave with a multilingual medieval guild.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2023) Alcolado Carnicero, José MiguelThis article tests the applicability of the community-of-practice framework to the process of vernacularisation of the earliest extant account book written by the Mercers’ guild of London between 1347–1348 and 1463–1464. Its records have been informative of the satisfactory applicability of social constructs from the two early sociolinguistic waves, such as time and age and social networks, to related multilingual phenomena, such as codemixing and language maintenance and shift. My analysis shows that the replacement of Latin and French by English as the main language for the different sections of that earliest extant account book began, developed, and ended when the administration of the Mercers’ guild of London was being controlled and recorded –at least partially– by warden-bookkeepers connected through regular and strong contact with each other. Furthermore, their use of the English vernacular was influenced by the previous and simultaneous contact with other records in the same vernacular.
- PublicationOpen AccessDialect in the Making : a third-wave sociolinguistic approach to the enregisterment of late modern Derbyshire spelling.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2023) Schintu Martínez, PaulaWithin the framework of third-wave sociolinguistic research, Asif Agha’s (2003) theory of enregisterment has proved a successful approach to explore the mechanisms that lead to the indexical connection between language and identity. Beal (2009, 2020), Cooper (2013, 2020), and Ruano-García (2012, 2020, 2021), among others, have investigated this phenomenon from a diachronic perspective. They have highlighted the value of dialect writing as a window into the main features associated with particular dialects, as it draws upon authenticating practices such as the use of dialect respellings, which not only signal salient phonological features, but also link them to wider schemes of sociocultural values and identities. This paper seeks to add to this field of research by looking at literary representations of Derbyshire speech (1850–1900) through the lens of enregisterment. My aims are twofold: I attempt to (1) shed light on the main phonological features of the Derbyshire dialect, while (2) determining how this variety was enregistered in the Late Modern English period, and whether meaningful text type-dependent indexical shifts might have affected the way in which this dialect was understood and thus represented by native and non-native speakers.