The future of dialects: Selected papers from Methods in Dialectology XV

• Автор: Côté, Marie-Hélène (auth)
• Інші автори: Knooihuizen, Remco (auth), Nerbonne, John (auth)
• Формат: Електронний ресурс Частина з книги
• Мова: Англійська
• Опубліковано: Language Science Press 2016
• Серія: Language Variation
• Предмети: linguistics; dialectology; dialects; Isogloss; Standard language; Syntax
• Онлайн доступ: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Резюме

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.

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1 electronic resource (411 p.)

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OAPEN_603313
9783946234197;9783946234203

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