The enregisterment of “Barnsley” dialect: Vowel fronting and being ‘broad’ in Yorkshire dialects

Publication date: January 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 64Author(s): Paul CooperAbstractIn this paper I investigate Yorkshire speakers' perceptions of Barnsley dialect. Interviews with speakers from different parts of Yorkshire revealed that the most frequently defined variety of "Yorkshire" dialect was "Barnsley". When demonstrating how this variety differed from other Yorkshire varieties, informants produce a fronted vowel in the first syllable of 'Barnsley'. I illustrate that this pronunciation has indexical links (Johnstone, Andrus, and Danielson 2006) to social values such as 'broad' and 'traditional', and that it is enregistered (Agha 2003) as a Barnsley feature. I conclude that language features can index multiple geographical areas simultaneously and that...

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