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The future of dialects : selected papers from Methods in dialectology XV / edited by Marie-Hélène Côté, Remco Knooihuizen [and] John Nerbonne.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (15th : 2014 : Groningen, Netherlands)
- Series:
- Language Variation ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v, 411 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Language Science Press, 2016
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Traditional dialects have been encroached upon by the increasing mobility of their speakers and by the onslaught of national languages in education and mass media. Typically, older dialects are “leveling” to become more like national languages. This is regrettable when the last articulate traces of a culture are lost, but it also promotes a complex dynamics of interaction as speakers shift from dialect to standard and to intermediate compromises between the two in their forms of speech. Varieties of speech thus live on in modern communities, where they still function to mark provenance, but increasingly cultural and social provenance as opposed to pure geography. They arise at times from the need to function throughout the different groups in society, but they also may have roots in immigrants’ speech, and just as certainly from the ineluctable dynamics of groups wishing to express their identity to themselves and to the world.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
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- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9783946234203
- 3946234208
- 9783946234197
- 3946234194
- 9783946234180
- 3946234186
- OCLC:
- 1163851776
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.26530/OAPEN_603313
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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