Speaking of Writing Romani : Language Attitudes, Text Editing, and Variability.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schippling, Melanie.

Series:

IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society Series

IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society Series ; v.56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romani language.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (454 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.

Summary:

As a traditionally oral language spoken in areas with a literacy-based culture, Romani provides a unique case for the study of orality and literacy. In a mixed-methods approach, this work investigates attitudes of Romani speakers towards the modalities, their communicative functions and use, and editing behaviour in writing texts.

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

List of symbols

Writing conventions

Chapter 1 Speaking of writing Romani

1.1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Points of departure and positioning of this work within academic discourses

2.1 Spoken and written language and the situatedness of speaking and writing

2.1.1 Theoretical frameworks to investigate spoken and written language

2.1.2 Literacies in context, their use, and implications

2.2 Language attitudes

2.3 Romani

2.4 Epistemological interest and methodological approach

Chapter 3 Knowledge production, ethical reflections, and a pandemic

3.1 On researcher bias and sensemaking

3.2 Power relations in research on Romani as a minority language

3.3 Research during the COVID-19 pandemic

Chapter 4 Language attitudes and language use among speakers of Romani

4.1 Study 1

4.1.1 Participants

4.1.2 Method

4.1.3 Results

4.1.4 Results

4.1.5 Results

4.1.6 Results

4.1.7 Discussion

4.2 Study 2

4.2.1 Method

4.2.1.1 Questions on language use (question set LU)

4.2.1.2 Measuring language attitudes

4.2.1.2.1 Semantic differential (question set DF: DFSG, DFWG, DFSR, DFWR)

4.2.1.2.2 Likert scale (question set LS)

4.2.1.3 Sociodemographic data (question set SD)

4.2.2 Method

4.2.2.1 Results of the pre-test

4.2.2.2 Interpretation of the pre-test results

4.2.3 Participants

4.2.4 Results

4.2.4.1 Language use of the participants

4.2.4.2 Data on explicit language attitudes of the participants

4.2.4.3 Additional insights from the comments of the questionnaire finishers

4.2.5 Discussion

4.3 Study 3

4.3.1 Method

4.3.1.1 Target stimuli

4.3.1.2 Attribute stimuli

4.3.1.3 Procedure

4.3.2 Participants

4.3.3 Results

4.3.4 Discussion

4.3.5 Extended study.

4.4 Interim conclusions based on findings on explicit and implicit attitudes (studies 1-3)

Chapter 5 Study 4

5.1 Method of data collection and predictions for a comparison of spoken/written accounts

5.2 Participants and data set

Stimulus-based narration (SBN)

Romani narratives

Romani traditions and cultural beliefs (TC)

5.3 Results

5.3.1 Omission of hesitation markers and further speech disfluencies (P1)

5.3.2 Correction of false starts (P2)

5.3.3 Omission of markers serving orientation for the hearer (P3)

5.3.4 Replacing coordination in speaking with hierarchical structures in writing (P4)

5.3.5 Preference for lexical elements of higher prestige (P5)

5.3.6 Condensation of information into fewer units (P6)

5.3.7 Omission of hedges (P7)

5.3.8 Omission of modulating elements (P8)

5.3.9 Further observations beyond the predictions (O1-O5)

O1

O2

O3

O4

O5

5.3.10 Stopping times

5.4 Discussion

Chapter 6 Future directions

Chapter 7 Conclusions

Bibliography

Appendices

Appendix A Supplementary material to study 1

A.1 Basic question list

A.2 Interview transcripts

Filename

English translation

A.3 Development of the category system for the qualitative content analysis

Appendix B Supplementary material to study 2

Index.

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ISBN:

90-272-4421-9

9789027244215

OCLC:

1570286662