Joan C Beal
Biographic Data
| ID | 600342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan C Beal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan C |
| FAMILY NAME | Beal |
| SIGNATURE | BEAL J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7287-8793 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Practised among the common people’
In a corpus compiled from the notes in John Walker's pronouncing dictionary (first edition 1791), Trapateau (2016) found that the most frequently occurring evaluative term used was vulgar. In Walker's dictionary, vulgar is defined as ‘plebeian, suiting to the common people, practised among the common people, mean, low, being of the common rate; publick, commonly bruited’ (1791, s.v. vulgar ). The frequency of this term in Walker's critical notes …
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism
Introduction. Broadly speaking, evidence sources for the study of prescriptivism can be divided into usage evidence - the actual language usage of individual speakers or speech communities - and precept evidence - the norms (prescriptive or otherwise) codified in works 011 language. New perspectives have emerged in the field of normative linguistics since the early 1990s, both theoretically and methodologically. For instance, a great deal of re…
En[dj]uring [ʧ]unes or ma[tj]ure [ʤ]ukes? Yod-coalescence and yod-dropping in the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database
Yod-coalescence involving alveolar consonants before Late Modern English /uː/ from earlier /iu > juː/ is still variable and diffusing in Present-day English. For example, the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) gives both (/tj dj/) and (/ʧ ʤ/) British English pronunciations for tune (/tjuːn/, /tʃuːn/), mature (/mǝˈtjʊǝ/, /mǝˈʧʊǝ/), duke (/djuːk/, /dʒuːk/) and endure (/ᵻnˈdjʊə/, /ɛnˈdjʊə/, /ᵻnˈdʒʊə/, /ɛnˈdʒʊə/, /ᵻnˈdjɔː/, /ɛnˈdjɔː/, /ᵻnˈdʒɔː/, /ɛnˈd…
Special issue on studies in Late Modern English historical phonology using the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (Ecep)
Since Charles Jones referred to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as the ‘Cinderellas of English historical linguistic study’ (1989: 279), there has been a great deal of progress in research on this period, but, as Beal (2012: 22) points out, much of this has been in the fields of syntax, morphology, lexis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and the normative tradition. Beal argues that the availability of corpora of Late Modern English texts has…
Jürg R. Schwyter. 2016. Dictating to the mob. The history of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English
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Perspectives on Northern Englishes
English
The Oxford History of English is an updated version of a work whose first edition appeared in 2006. The content is essentially the same as that of the first edition, with the same fourteen chapters covering a chronology stretching from prehistory (‘Before English’, pp. 9–38) to the present (‘Into the Twenty-first Century’, pp. 488–513). Apart from the addition of some post-2006 publications to the references and suggestions for further reading th…
Roots of English
This volume is exploratory in two ways: as well as inviting the reader to explore the rich resources collected by the author from speakers of three British dialect corpora, it demonstrates the pote
‘All the Lads and Lasses’
Taking as our starting-point the results of an investigation conducted on data collected in the 1950s for the Survey of English Dialects (SED) (Glauser, 1985), in this paper we look at data collected between forty and fifty years after the SED to examine variation in the semantic fields BOYS/GIRLS; SONS/DAUGHTERS. Glauser's SED data consisted of single-word responses mainly from older male informants to questions such as: ‘Children may be of eith…
The grocer's apostrophe
“Some shops use an apostrophe, wrongly, to indicate an plural (‘pea's’), but will generally omit the apostrophe when one is actually required (‘new seasons asparagus’), a phenomenon sometimes referred to as the greengrocer's (or grocer's) apostrophe. Try to avoid this.” (Marsh & Hodsdon (eds), 2008: 5) In this article, I shall examine a range of evidence from printed and web-based sources to gauge the extent of interest in punctuation, and the ki…
Enregisterment, Commodification, and Historical Context
This article examines a range of texts from nineteenth-century Newcastle and Sheffield, both in the north of England, to demonstrate how the urban dialects of these cities, known respectively as “Geordie” and “Sheffieldish,” became enregistered in this period. Features that were actually more widespread in the north of England and in Scotland were “claimed” as unique to each of these new urban dialects, and in each case, a repertoire of features …
Treasure-house of the Language
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Creating and digitizing language corpora
A range of electronic corpora has become accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This coincides with improvements in standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. This book devel
Katie Wales. 2006. Northern English
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Arthur Hughes, Peter Trudgill and Dominic Watt, English accents and dialects
Arthur Hughes, Peter Trudgill and Dominic Watt, English accents and dialects: An introduction to social and regional varieties of English in the British Isles. 4th ed. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005. Pp. xiii, 159. Pb and accompanying CD £24.99. English accents and dialects has been the standard introductory textbook on varieties of English in the British Isles since it first appeared in 1979. It is well known and widely used as the only compact and…
New approaches to the study of later modern English
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No, nay, never
K. M. Petyt, Dialect and accent in industrial West Yorkshire. (Varieties of English around the World. General Series, 6.) Amsterdam and Philadelphia
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Sociohistorical Linguistics - K. C. Phillips, Language and class in Victorian England. Oxford
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Enregisterment, Commodification, and Historical Context
This article examines a range of texts from nineteenth-century Newcastle and Sheffield, both in the north of England, to demonstrate how the urban dialects of these cities, known respectively as “Geordie” and “Sheffieldish,” became enregistered in this period. Features that were actually more widespread in the north of England and in Scotland were “claimed” as unique to each of these new urban dialects, and in each case, a repertoire of features …
Roots of English
This volume is exploratory in two ways: as well as inviting the reader to explore the rich resources collected by the author from speakers of three British dialect corpora, it demonstrates the pote
Sociohistorical Linguistics - K. C. Phillips, Language and class in Victorian England. Oxford
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
K. M. Petyt, Dialect and accent in industrial West Yorkshire. (Varieties of English around the World. General Series, 6.) Amsterdam and Philadelphia
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No, nay, never
New approaches to the study of later modern English
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Creating and digitizing language corpora
A range of electronic corpora has become accessible via the WWW and CD-ROM. This coincides with improvements in standards governing the collecting, encoding and archiving of such data. This book devel
Katie Wales. 2006. Northern English
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Arthur Hughes, Peter Trudgill and Dominic Watt, English accents and dialects
Arthur Hughes, Peter Trudgill and Dominic Watt, English accents and dialects: An introduction to social and regional varieties of English in the British Isles. 4th ed. London: Hodder Arnold, 2005. Pp. xiii, 159. Pb and accompanying CD £24.99. English accents and dialects has been the standard introductory textbook on varieties of English in the British Isles since it first appeared in 1979. It is well known and widely used as the only compact and…
Enregisterment, Commodification, and Historical Context
This article examines a range of texts from nineteenth-century Newcastle and Sheffield, both in the north of England, to demonstrate how the urban dialects of these cities, known respectively as “Geordie” and “Sheffieldish,” became enregistered in this period. Features that were actually more widespread in the north of England and in Scotland were “claimed” as unique to each of these new urban dialects, and in each case, a repertoire of features …
Treasure-house of the Language
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The grocer's apostrophe
“Some shops use an apostrophe, wrongly, to indicate an plural (‘pea's’), but will generally omit the apostrophe when one is actually required (‘new seasons asparagus’), a phenomenon sometimes referred to as the greengrocer's (or grocer's) apostrophe. Try to avoid this.” (Marsh & Hodsdon (eds), 2008: 5) In this article, I shall examine a range of evidence from printed and web-based sources to gauge the extent of interest in punctuation, and the ki…
‘All the Lads and Lasses’
Taking as our starting-point the results of an investigation conducted on data collected in the 1950s for the Survey of English Dialects (SED) (Glauser, 1985), in this paper we look at data collected between forty and fifty years after the SED to examine variation in the semantic fields BOYS/GIRLS; SONS/DAUGHTERS. Glauser's SED data consisted of single-word responses mainly from older male informants to questions such as: ‘Children may be of eith…
English
The Oxford History of English is an updated version of a work whose first edition appeared in 2006. The content is essentially the same as that of the first edition, with the same fourteen chapters covering a chronology stretching from prehistory (‘Before English’, pp. 9–38) to the present (‘Into the Twenty-first Century’, pp. 488–513). Apart from the addition of some post-2006 publications to the references and suggestions for further reading th…
Roots of English
This volume is exploratory in two ways: as well as inviting the reader to explore the rich resources collected by the author from speakers of three British dialect corpora, it demonstrates the pote
Perspectives on Northern Englishes
Jürg R. Schwyter. 2016. Dictating to the mob. The history of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English
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En[dj]uring [ʧ]unes or ma[tj]ure [ʤ]ukes? Yod-coalescence and yod-dropping in the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database
Yod-coalescence involving alveolar consonants before Late Modern English /uː/ from earlier /iu > juː/ is still variable and diffusing in Present-day English. For example, the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) gives both (/tj dj/) and (/ʧ ʤ/) British English pronunciations for tune (/tjuːn/, /tʃuːn/), mature (/mǝˈtjʊǝ/, /mǝˈʧʊǝ/), duke (/djuːk/, /dʒuːk/) and endure (/ᵻnˈdjʊə/, /ɛnˈdjʊə/, /ᵻnˈdʒʊə/, /ɛnˈdʒʊə/, /ᵻnˈdjɔː/, /ɛnˈdjɔː/, /ᵻnˈdʒɔː/, /ɛnˈd…
Special issue on studies in Late Modern English historical phonology using the Eighteenth-Century English Phonology Database (Ecep)
Since Charles Jones referred to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as the ‘Cinderellas of English historical linguistic study’ (1989: 279), there has been a great deal of progress in research on this period, but, as Beal (2012: 22) points out, much of this has been in the fields of syntax, morphology, lexis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and the normative tradition. Beal argues that the availability of corpora of Late Modern English texts has…
‘Practised among the common people’
In a corpus compiled from the notes in John Walker's pronouncing dictionary (first edition 1791), Trapateau (2016) found that the most frequently occurring evaluative term used was vulgar. In Walker's dictionary, vulgar is defined as ‘plebeian, suiting to the common people, practised among the common people, mean, low, being of the common rate; publick, commonly bruited’ (1791, s.v. vulgar ). The frequency of this term in Walker's critical notes …
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism
Introduction. Broadly speaking, evidence sources for the study of prescriptivism can be divided into usage evidence - the actual language usage of individual speakers or speech communities - and precept evidence - the norms (prescriptive or otherwise) codified in works 011 language. New perspectives have emerged in the field of normative linguistics since the early 1990s, both theoretically and methodologically. For instance, a great deal of re…
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