Between Nottin’ Ill Gite and Bleckfriars – the enregisterment of Cockney in the 19th century

Author:

Gerwin Johanna1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Queen Mary University of London , London , UK

Abstract

AbstractIn the 19th century, Cockney, the traditional working-class accent of London, underwent a significant change in how it was perceived and described. At the beginning of the 19th century the public discourse on the Cockney accent was restricted to a few linguistic shibboleths such as the interchange of /w/ and /v/ (represented in spellings such asweal,winegar, orvell) and h-dropping, and mentioned by orthoepists and orthographically reproduced by some novelists. By the end of the 19th century, detailed Cockney descriptions and depictions had emerged, leading to the social and cultural construction – theenregisterment – of the Cockney dialect. This paper documents this process by systematically analysing various types of published meta-discourse for both the linguistic forms (shibboleths) mentioned and the social meanings associated with them, especially in the form of so-called ‘characterological figures of personhood’. It further analyses conflicting language ideologies that Cockney was subject to in the 19th century, and which influenced its enregisterment process.

Funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

German Historical Institute London

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

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