Joan C. Beal

Beal, Joan C. 2020 “A received pronunciation”: Eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries and the precursors of RP Late Modern English: Novel encounters, Kytö, Merja and Erik Smitterberg (eds.), pp. 21–41 | Chapter

This chapter examines the codification of English pronunciation prior to the emergence and recognition of RP. I analyse early citations of “received pronunciation” and contrast these with later uses of “Received Pronunciation”. Drawing on Haugen (1966) and Milroy & Milroy (1999), I identify the… read more

Beal, Joan C. 2019 Chapter 2. Enregisterment and historical sociolinguistics Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English, Jansen, Sandra and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 7–24 | Chapter

This chapter introduces the concepts of indexicality and enregisterment and examines how they can be applied to the study of historical sociolinguistics, as part of a recent turn towards “third wave” (Eckert 2012) sociolinguistic approaches in this discipline. The chapter explores the potential… read more

Beal, Joan C. 2018 Jürg R. Schwyter. 2016. Dictating to the mob. The history of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English NOWELE 71:1, pp. 119–125 | Review

Beal, Joan C. 2016 Chapter 1. Enregistering the North: The dialect of Mendicus in William Bullein’s Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence Linguistics and Literary History: In honour of Sylvia Adamson, Auer, Anita, Victorina González-Díaz, Jane Hodson and Violeta Sotirova (eds.), pp. 13–30 | Article

William Bullein’s Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilence (1st ed. 1564) was reprinted by the Early English Text Society in 1888 and later included in Early English Books Online (EEBO). Although much of the scholarly interest in the text has been in the areas of medical history (e.g. Mitchell 1959)… read more

Beal, Joan C. 2015 Review of Hughes, Trudgill & Watt (2012): English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles English World-Wide 36:2, pp. 264–267 | Review

Beal, Joan C. and Paul Cooper 2015 The enregisterment of Northern English Researching Northern English, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 27–50 | Article

In this chapter, we discuss the processes whereby northern varieties of English became recognised and evaluated as distinct from others. The theoretical framework for the chapter will be that of indexicality and enregisterment, the latter term defined by Agha as a set of “processes through which a… read more

Beal, Joan C. 2012 Can’t see the wood for the trees? Corpora and the study of Late Modern English Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics: A multi-dimensional approach, Markus, Manfred, Yoko Iyeiri, Reinhard Heuberger and Emil Chamson (eds.), pp. 13–30 | Article

This paper provides an overview of the effect of what we might call the “corpus revolution” on Late Modern English (LModE) studies, transforming it from the “Cinderella” of historical linguistic study to the exciting and innovative field that it is today. In acknowledging what has been gained from… read more

Beal, Joan C. 2012 1. Late Modern English in its historical context Astronomy ‘playne and simple’: The writing of science between 1700 and 1900, Moskowich, Isabel and Begoña Crespo (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article

Beal, Joan C. 2009 Treasure-house of the Language: The Living OED. By Charlotte Brewer Historiographia Linguistica 36:1, pp. 163–167 | Review

Beal, Joan C. 2007 Katie Wales. 2006. Northern English: A Social and Cultural History English World-Wide 28:3, pp. 343–348 | Miscellaneous

Beal, Joan C. 2007 English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. By Charles Jones Historiographia Linguistica 34:2/3, pp. 403–409 | Review

Beal, Joan C., Jane Hodson, Richard Steadman-Jones and Carol Percy 2006 New approaches to the study of later modern English New Approaches to the Study of Later Modern English, pp. 1–9 | Introduction

Beal, Joan C. and Karen P. Corrigan 2005 No, nay, never: Negation in Tyneside English Aspects of English Negation, Iyeiri, Yoko (ed.), pp. 139–157 | Article

Beal, Joan C. and Karen P. Corrigan 2005 A tale of two dialects: Relativization in Newcastle and Sheffield Dialects Across Borders: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002, Filppula, Markku, Juhani Klemola, Marjatta Palander and Esa Penttilä (eds.), pp. 211–229 | Article

Beal, Joan C. 1996 The Jocks and the Geordies: Modified standards in Eighteenth-century pronouncing dictionaries English Historical Linguistics 1994: Papers from the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (8 ICEHL, Edinburgh, 19–23 September 1994), Britton, Derek (ed.), pp. 363 ff. | Article

Beal, Joan C. 1985 Lengthening of a in Tyneside English Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10–13, 1985, Eaton, Roger, Olga Fischer, Willem F. Koopman and Frederike van der Leek (eds.), pp. 31 ff. | Article

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