Dialect Contact
eBook - ePub

Dialect Contact

From Speaker to Community-Based Perspectives

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Dialect Contact

From Speaker to Community-Based Perspectives

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Dialect Contact by Víctor Fernández-Mallat, Jennifer Nycz, Víctor Fernández-Mallat,Jennifer Nycz in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. 1. A Multi-level Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of Dialect Contact
  8. 2. Dialect Leveling and Supralocalization in a Rural Community: Generational Change from 7:35 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. in Ricote
  9. 3. Da isch einfach eine Sehnsucht danach ‘There is simply a longing for it’: Indexicalities of Dialect Convergence and Renewal in Swabian
  10. 4. Focusing and Feature Complexity in Amman Arabic
  11. 5. Unwitting Convergence: Kolokwa and Liberian Settler English
  12. 6. The Relative Acquirability of Different Types of Dialect Features by Mobile Speakers of Korean
  13. 7. Interaction, Confounding Effect, and Collinearity in the Analysis of Brazilian Internal Migrants’ Speech
  14. 8. On the (Non-)Uniformity of Contact Outcomes: A Comparison of Spanish in New York City and Boston
  15. 9. T-Flapping in Singapore English: Americanization, Innovation, or Both?
  16. 10. Making Things Easier: The Pragmatism behind Second Dialect Acquisition
  17. Contributors
  18. Index