Social Dialectology
In honour of Peter Trudgill
1st Edition
Published on 29. August 2003
X, 344 pages
978-90-272-9647-4 (ISBN)
Description
The time-honoured study of dialects took a new turn some forty years ago, giving centre stage to social factors and the quantitative analysis of language variation and change. It has become a discipline that no scholar of language can afford to ignore. This collection identifies the main theoretical and methodological issues currently preoccupying researchers in social dialectology, drawing not only on variation in English in the UK, USA, New Zealand, Europe and elsewhere but also in Arabic, Greek, Norwegian and Spanish dialects. The volume brings together previously unpublished work by the world's most prolific and well-respected social dialectologists as well as by some younger, dynamic researchers. Together the authors provide new perspectives on both the traditional areas of sociolinguistic variation and change and the newer fields of dialect formation, dialect diffusion and dialect levelling. They provide a snapshot of some of the burning issues currently preoccupying researchers in the field and give signposts to the future direction of the discipline.
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- Social Dialectology
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC page
- Photo's Peter Trudgill
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Note
- Pursuing the cascade model
- The mechanism of the cascade model
- Notes
- References
- Complementary approaches to the diffusion of standard features in a local community
- Introduction
- The normalisation process in Murcian Spanish
- Objectives
- Approaches to the diffusion of standard forms in Murcian Spanish
- A real-time study based on radio recordings
- An apparent-time study based on gravity models and quantitative sociolinguistics
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- Systemic accommodation
- Notes
- References
- New dialect formation
- Population and dialect mixture
- The research
- The pronominal suffix -kum
- The 2nd person plural clitics in the input dialects
- Explanation: Markedness and simplification
- Area 502
- References
- Variation and sound change in New Zealand English
- Introduction
- Individual internal variation in the ONZE data
- Individual internal variation in the near/square merger in NZE
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- An East Anglian in the South Atlantic?
- Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic Ocean
- The status of 3rd person singular -s in English around the world
- 3rd person singular zero in Tristan da Cunha English (TdCE)
- Uncounted forms and analysis
- Inter-individual variation
- External factors
- Internal constraints
- Discussion
- Origins: Independent development or input legacy?
- Why did TdCE adopt non-marking?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Sociolinguistics of immigration
- The Language Gap
- The Literacy Gap
- The Integration Gap
- Inverse Assimilation
- Social Typology
- Toward a sociolinguistics of immigration
- References
- Why fuude is not `food' and tschëgge is not `check'
- The actuation of language change
- The linguistic situation in Switzerland
- Lexical borrowing from English in the Swiss German dialects
- The youth movement in Switzerland between 1968 and 1984
- Patroncini's lexicon of the Gassensprache (`the language of the streets')
- The `Gassensprache' as an anti-language
- Weak links and central network members: A complex of social networks
- Theoretical implications
- Notes
- References
- Parallel development and alternative restructuring
- Introduction
- Leveling to weren't in apparent time: A comparative perspective
- Ocracoke
- Harkers Island
- Smith Island
- Mainland Hyde County
- The British Fens
- Explaining weren't intensification
- Notes
- References
- Social and linguistic dimensions of phonological change
- Introduction
- The "classic'' variationist model
- Dialect contact frameworks
- Language ideology
- Fitting the pieces together
- Notes
- References
- Changing mental maps and morphology
- Introduction: Historical background
- Linguistic consequences (the problem)
- Variation in a Hungarian-American idiolect
- Earlier observations
- A cognitive linguist's view
- The study
- Subjects
- Methods
- Hypotheses
- Findings
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Exploring the importance of the outlier in sociolinguistic dialectology
- Introduction
- Fens outliers
- The restructuring of the past be system
- The diphthong in the mouth lexical set
- `Canadian Raising' in the price lexical set
- Variation (or lack of it) in the vowel of the bath lexical set
- Interdialectal variants of the strut lexical set
- Discussion
- Notes
- References
- When is a sound change?
- Introduction
- (th) fronting in Derby
- Data analysis
- Findings
- Discussion
- Notes
- References
- Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English
- Introduction: Geographical diffusion vs. levelling
- British sociolinguistic dialectology and the concept of `dialect levelling'
- Regional dialect levelling in English vowels
- Dialect levelling in English vowels: Mutual accommodation or geographical diffusion?
- Consonants: Torchbearers of geographical diffusion?
- Regional dialect levelling and regional identities
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Social dimensions of syntactic variation
- Introduction
- Lone when clauses
- Explicatory lone when clauses
- Pivotal lone when clauses
- Social variation
- Narrative analysis
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Transcription conventions
- References
- Language variation in Greece
- Introduction
- Greek diglossia
- Regional variation
- Social variation
- Concluding remarks
- Notes
- References
- A Norwegian adult language game, anti-language or secret code
- Mandal, language games and Smoi
- The origin, development and spread of Smoi
- Special Mandal dialect features reflected in Smoi
- The coining of Smoi words
- Smoi's position in Mandal's cultural history
- Acknowledgement
- References
- Children and linguistic normativity
- Evaluative vocabulary
- Bases of evaluation
- Intelligibility
- Institutionalised norms
- Effects of literacy
- Personal experience
- Future perspectives
- Notes
- References
- The virtue of the vernacular
- Notes
- References
- The Nynorsk standard language and Norwegian dialect varieties
- Introduction
- The Norwegian language(s)
- The Nynorsk standard language
- The eastern dialects
- The optionality issue
- Vowels in stressed syllables
- Diphthongs
- Front rounded vowels
- Balance
- Consonants
- Single and double consonant
- Initial xw- clusters
- Loss of final r
- Verbal inflection
- The present tense of strong verbs
- Perfect participle of strong verbs
- Nominal inflection
- Pronouns
- First person singular
- Second person plural
- Third person
- Vocabulary
- Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Peter Trudgill's publications
- Index
- The series IMPACT: STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY
