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

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. Cooper situates the work within a historical enregisterment framework, rooted in an ideological approach to the study of language.

Focusing on representations of the Yorkshire dialect in a corpus of nineteenth-century writing, comprising poetry, balla...