Dialect Contact
From Speaker to Community-Based Perspectives
Published on 2. January 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-1-64712-502-8 (ISBN)
Description
New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individuals
Dialect contact occurs whenever speakers of mutually intelligible language varieties interact. Many linguists are interested in the outcome of such contact-how it leads people and languages to vary and change, and what such patterns can reveal about language, mind, and society. Dialect contact can thus be approached as an individual-level or a community-level phenomenon; a cognitive process or a social one.
In Dialect Contact, international contributors present studies touching on both perspectives, representing languages and varieties spanning five continents. The chapters shed light on the many factors influencing dialect change and highlight the importance of considering the contact dynamics that are specific to individual people and communities.
This book will benefit sociolinguistics scholars and students interested in the outcomes of dialect contact, the implications of contact for understanding language change, and the various methods used to investigate contact effects in individuals and communities.
Dialect contact occurs whenever speakers of mutually intelligible language varieties interact. Many linguists are interested in the outcome of such contact-how it leads people and languages to vary and change, and what such patterns can reveal about language, mind, and society. Dialect contact can thus be approached as an individual-level or a community-level phenomenon; a cognitive process or a social one.
In Dialect Contact, international contributors present studies touching on both perspectives, representing languages and varieties spanning five continents. The chapters shed light on the many factors influencing dialect change and highlight the importance of considering the contact dynamics that are specific to individual people and communities.
This book will benefit sociolinguistics scholars and students interested in the outcomes of dialect contact, the implications of contact for understanding language change, and the various methods used to investigate contact effects in individuals and communities.
Reviews / Votes
Overall, the book offers exemplary scholarship....Also noteworthy is how the usage of modern technology provides quite detailed and precise data and analyses. The chapters are, in sum, solid reference works for future dialectology studies. * Hispania *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington, DC
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
330 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64712-502-8 (9781647125028)
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01/2025
Georgetown University Press
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Persons
Victor Fernandez-Mallat is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. He is an editor of Linguistic Landscapes and Educational Spaces (2021) and has published articles in journals like the Journal of Pragmatics and Intercultural Pragmatics. Jennifer Nycz is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of Second Dialect Acquisition: Theory and Methods (2015).
Content
Chapter 1: A Multi-level Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of Dialect Contact
Victor Fernandez-Mallat and Jennifer Nycz
Chapter 2: Dialect Leveling and Supralocalization in a Rural Community: Generational Change from 7:35 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Ricote
Laura Torrano-Moreno and Juan M. Hernandez-Campoy
Chapter 3: Da isch einfach eine Sehnsucht danach 'There is simply a longing for it': Indexicalities of dialect convergence and renewal in Swabian
Karen V. Beaman
Chapter 4: Focusing and Feature Complexity in Amman Arabic
Enam Al-Wer and Areej Al-Hawamdeh
Chapter 5: Unwitting Convergence: Kolokwa and Liberian Settler English
Allison Shapp, Michael Marinaccio, and John Victor Singler
Chapter 6: The Relative Acquirability of Different Types of Dialect Features by Mobile Speakers of Korean
Yoojin Kang
Chapter 7: Interaction, Confounding Effect, and Collinearity in the Analysis of Brazilian Internal Migrants' Speech
Livia Oushiro
Chapter 8: On the (Non-)Uniformity of Contact Outcomes: A Comparison of Spanish in New York City and Boston
Daniel Erker
Chapter 9: T-Flapping in Singapore English: Americanization, Innovation, or Both?
Wesley Mark Lincoln and Rebecca Lurie Starr
Chapter 10: Making Things Easier: The Pragmatism behind Second Dialect Acquisition
Abby Walker
Contributors
Index
Victor Fernandez-Mallat and Jennifer Nycz
Chapter 2: Dialect Leveling and Supralocalization in a Rural Community: Generational Change from 7:35 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Ricote
Laura Torrano-Moreno and Juan M. Hernandez-Campoy
Chapter 3: Da isch einfach eine Sehnsucht danach 'There is simply a longing for it': Indexicalities of dialect convergence and renewal in Swabian
Karen V. Beaman
Chapter 4: Focusing and Feature Complexity in Amman Arabic
Enam Al-Wer and Areej Al-Hawamdeh
Chapter 5: Unwitting Convergence: Kolokwa and Liberian Settler English
Allison Shapp, Michael Marinaccio, and John Victor Singler
Chapter 6: The Relative Acquirability of Different Types of Dialect Features by Mobile Speakers of Korean
Yoojin Kang
Chapter 7: Interaction, Confounding Effect, and Collinearity in the Analysis of Brazilian Internal Migrants' Speech
Livia Oushiro
Chapter 8: On the (Non-)Uniformity of Contact Outcomes: A Comparison of Spanish in New York City and Boston
Daniel Erker
Chapter 9: T-Flapping in Singapore English: Americanization, Innovation, or Both?
Wesley Mark Lincoln and Rebecca Lurie Starr
Chapter 10: Making Things Easier: The Pragmatism behind Second Dialect Acquisition
Abby Walker
Contributors
Index