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Javier Ruano García

 

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 fjrg@usal.es 

 ORCID; Academia

 Departamento de Filología Inglesa (Universidad de Salamanca)

 

Javier Ruano-García is Associate Professor of the History of the English Language in the Department of English Philology at the University of Salamanca. Javier’s main research interests lie in the fields of historical language variation, with a focus on regional dialects of the early and late modern English periods, historical sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, historical dialect lexicography and manuscript editing. He has been involved in the compilation of the Salamanca Corpus for the past ten years, taking care of literary texts representative of the Lancashire dialect and glossaries compiled by women like Sarah Sophia Banks and Angelina Parker.

 

Recent publications

  • Ruano-García, Javier (2021). “Horae Subsecivae, ‘that remarkable glossary of West Country words’ (Bodl. MS Eng. lang. d. 66)”. International Journal of Lexicography 34.2: 235-258. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecaa028].
  • Ruano-García, Javier (2021). “Aw’m Lancashire, owd cock, and gradely hearty: Enregistered Lancashire voices in the nineteenth-century theatre”. The Dialects of British English in Fictional Texts (eds. Donatella Montini and Irene Ranzato). London, New York: Routledge. 108-129.
  • Ruano-García, Javier (2020). “The contribution of Angelina Parker to the English Dialect Dictionary”. Dictionaries 41.2: 1-24. [DOI: 10.1353/dic.2020.0020].
  • Ruano-García, Javier (2020). “Shaping the other in the standardization of English: The case of the 'northern' dialect”. International Journal of English Studies 20.2: 185-205 (Special issue on “Standardization and change in Early Modern English: Empirical and theoretical approaches”, edited by Javier Calle Martín and Laura Esteban Segura). [DOI: ttps://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.364211].
  • Ruano-García, Javier (2020). “On the enregisterment of the Lancashire dialect in Late Modern English: Spelling in focus". Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. 6.1: 1-38. [DOI: 10.1515/jhsl-2018-0024].
  • Ruano-García, Javier (2019). “On the colonial element in Joseph Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary”. International Journal of Lexicography 32.1: 38-57. [DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ ecy020].
  • Ruano-García, Javier (ed.) (2018). White Kennett. Etymological Collections of English Words and Provincial Expressions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Ruano-García, Javier (2016). “when the provincial Dialects were the subject of Conversation: Eighteenth-century Norfolk words in BL Add MS 32640”. Dictionaries 37: 99-131. [DOI: 10.1353/dic.2016.0004].

Oral presentations

  • Ruano-García, Javier. «Crafting the Lancashire dialect on the nineteenth-century stage: Insights from enregisterment, stylisation and the sociolinguistics of performance». 44th International AEDEAN Conference (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain), 24-26 November 2021.
  • Ruano-García, Javier. «Farmer Pearse had three distinct manners of speech: Representations of dialect speech in Late Modern English dialect writing». International Workshop on Speech Representation in Late Modern English Text Types (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland), 12 November 2021.
  • Ruano-García, Javier. «My principal guide…for the dialectical words of this county: The contribution of Horae Subsecivae to James O. Halliwell’s A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words (1847)”. 11th International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL-11) (Universidad de La Rioja, Spain), 16-18 June 2021.
  • Ruano-García, Javier. «Can you kindly tell me whether there is a verb to punch in dialectal use in Oxfordshire?: On the Contribution of Angelina Parker to the EDD‘s Coverage of the Oxfordshire Dialect». English Historical Lexicography in the Digital Age: Focus on Social and Geographical Variation (University degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy), 11-13 April 2020.

Recent projects

  • Principal Investigator
    • 2021-2022. Aproximaciones sociolingüísticas a la variación ortográfica dialectal histórica en lengua inglesa. Universidad de Salamanca. 2021/00167/001.
    • 2019-2020. Recuperación y estudio de textos olvidados en la historia de la lexicografía dialectal inglesa: MS Eng. lang. d. 67. Universidad de Salamanca. 2019/00174/001.
  • Researcher
    • 2020-2024. CORIECOR visualized. Irish English in writing across time (a longitudinal perspective). IP: Dra. Fuencisla García-Bermejo Giner (Universidad de Salamanca). Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades. PID2019-106609GB-100.