Social dialectology : in honour of Peter Trudgill / edited by David Britain, Jenny Cheshire.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trudgill, Peter.

Britain, David.

Cheshire, Jenny, 1946-

Series:

Impact, studies in language and society ; 16.

Impact, studies in language and society, 1385-7908 ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialectology.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 The volume brings together previously unpublished work by the world's most prolific and well-respected social dialectologists as well as by some younger, dynamic researchers.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.

Contents:

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

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

Systemic accommodation

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

Variation and sound change in New Zealand English

Individual internal variation in the ONZE data

Individual internal variation in the near/square merger in NZE

Discussion

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

Origins: Independent development or input legacy?

Why did TdCE adopt non-marking?

Sociolinguistics of immigration

The Language Gap

The Literacy Gap

The Integration Gap

Inverse Assimilation

Social Typology

Toward a sociolinguistics of immigration

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

Parallel development and alternative restructuring

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

Social and linguistic dimensions of phonological change

The "classic'' variationist model

Dialect contact frameworks

Language ideology

Fitting the pieces together

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

Conclusions

Exploring the importance of the outlier in sociolinguistic dialectology

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

When is a sound change?

(th) fronting in Derby

Data analysis

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

Social dimensions of syntactic variation

Lone when clauses

Explicatory lone when clauses

Pivotal lone when clauses

Social variation

Narrative analysis

Transcription conventions

Language variation in Greece

Greek diglossia

Regional variation

Concluding remarks

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

Children and linguistic normativity

Evaluative vocabulary

Bases of evaluation

Intelligibility

Institutionalised norms

Effects of literacy

Personal experience

Future perspectives

The virtue of the vernacular

The Nynorsk standard language and Norwegian dialect varieties

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

Peter Trudgill's publications

Index

The series IMPACT: STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612161209

9781282161207

1282161202

9789027296474

9027296472