"What ye divin't knaa aboot the canny lads and lasses back yem": A Study of Language and Identity in the Geordie Variety of English

Authors

  • Joaquín Bueno Amaro University of Jaén

Abstract

Resumen

El trabajo versa sobre la estrecha relación idioma-identidad y, más específicamente, indaga en el efecto que tiene la variedad Geordie del inglés del noreste de Inglaterra en sus hablantes, ampliando así el estudio dialectal a un ámbito social, comunitario y de identidad. Los puntos principales de esta investigación son: 1) un análisis detallado de las características lingüísticas del Geordie, tanto fonético-fonológicas como léxicas y gramaticales; 2) un estudio de la encuesta que se ha llevado a cabo sobre la identidad Geordie para el presente trabajo; y 3) la combinación de los resultados de estos tres puntos para entender el porqué de la existencia del Geordie, el porqué de su mantenimiento y el porqué de su rechazo en otras regiones del país, así como lo que supone la variedad para la comunidad.

Palabras clave: sociolingüística, fonética, fonología, Geordie, dialecto, inglés británico

 

Abstract

This paper concerns the close relation between language and identity and, more specifically, provides insights into the effects of the Geordie variety of the North East of England on its speakers. Dialectal studies are thus broadened to fields of society, community and identity. The pivotal points of this research are: 1) a detailed analysis of the linguistic characteristics of Geordie, not only phonetic-phonological, but also lexical and grammatical; 2) the reflection about the survey that has been conducted on Geordie identity for this paper; and 3) the combination of all these investigations in order to get a better understanding of the reasons behind the existence, maintenance and rejection of Geordie, as well as the bonds between the variety and the local community.

Keywords: sociolinguistics, phonetics, phonology, Geordie, dialect, British English

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Author Biography

Joaquín Bueno Amaro, University of Jaén

Joaquín Bueno-Amaro holds a BA on English Studies at the University of Jaén, Spain. He spent the third year of the BA at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom (2013-2014). He has worked for the Department of English Philology at the University of Jaén as a scholarship holder (2014-2015). He currently works as a freelance translator and as an occasional translator for Newcastle United Football Club, and has worked as the official interpreter of the same club. He also works as an English teacher at Saltdean Language Centre, United Kingdom (every summer since 2012). His research interests include English Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Audiovisual Translation and Interpreting.

 

Mail address: C/ Menéndez Pelayo, 21D, 1B. 23003 Jaén (Jaén). ESPAÑA.

E-mail address: joaquinbuenoamaro@gmail.com

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Published

2016-07-09

How to Cite

Bueno Amaro, J. (2016). &quot;What ye divin’t knaa aboot the canny lads and lasses back yem&quot;: A Study of Language and Identity in the Geordie Variety of English. The Grove - Working Papers on English Studies, 22. Retrieved from https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/grove/article/view/2649