Dialect Contact : From Speaker to Community-Based Perspectives / Victor Fernández-Mallat and Jennifer Nycz, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fernández-Mallat, Víctor, 1981- editor.

Nycz, Jennifer, editor.

Series:

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact--Congresses.

Languages in contact.

Dialectology--Congresses.

Dialectology.

Sociolinguistics--Congresses.

Sociolinguistics.

Genre:

Actes de congres.

Conference papers and proceedings.

proceedings (reports)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2024]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

A Multi-level Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of Dialect Contact / Víctor Fernández-Mallat and Jennifer Nycz

Dialect Leveling and Supralocalization in a Rural Community : Generational Change from 7:35pm to 8:30pm in Ricote / Laura Torrano-Moreno and Juan M. Hernández-Campoy

da isch einfach eine Sehnsucht danach 'There is simply a longing for it' : Indexicalities of dialect convergence and renewal in Swabian / Karen V. Beaman

Focusing and Feature Complexity in Amman Arabic / Enam Al-Wer and Areej Al-Hawamdeh

Unwitting Convergence : Kolokwa and Liberian Settler English / Allison Shapp, Michael Marinaccio, and John Victor Singler

The Relative Acquirability of Different Types of Dialect Features by Mobile Speakers of Korean / Yoojin Kang

Interaction, Confounding Effect, and Collinearity in the Analysis of Brazilian Internal Migrants' Speech / Livia Oushiro

On the (Non-)Uniformity of Contact Outcomes : A Comparison of Spanish in New York City and Boston / Daniel Erker

T-flapping in Singapore English : Americanization, Innovation, or Both? / Wesley Mark Lincoln and Rebecca Lurie Starr

Making Things Easier : The Pragmatism Behind Second Dialect Acquisition / Abby Walker.

Notes:

"Editors Jennifer Nycz and Victor Fernández-Mallat argue that to expand our understanding of language use, we must look at what happens when languages and versions of the same language come in contact with one another. Over time, two perspectives on dialect contact have emerged, changes to individual speakers and changes to a community of speakers. In this book, a set of international contributors from both perspectives examines what happens when speakers of one language variety interact with speakers of another language variety and how each perspective can contribute to the other. In Dialect Contact, language contact in five continents and multiple languages is examined. The research presented both validates existing linguistic understanding and shares dynamics that are unique to particular groups of speakers. Dialect Contact highlights the importance of contact dynamics in larger linguistic studies and shows the importance of disentangling their effects from data sets in order to consider the specific communities and individuals being studied. This book will be a must-have for sociolinguistics scholars and students"-- Provided by publisher.

Papers originally presented at the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, held online in March 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-64712-503-0

OCLC:

1492364527