Peter Trudgill- Norwich Study

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  Studying Dialect

  • Rob Penhallurick(Author)
  • 2018(Publication Date)
  • Bloomsbury Academic

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  • Guide to variable-rule analysis . • Summary of Peter Trudgill’s research into Norwich English, 1968–88. • Explanation of principal components analysis and social network theory . Studying Dialect 202 Chapters 9 and 10 continue down this path by describing two major ‘post-sociolinguistic’ trends, perceptual dialectology ( Chapter 9) and geolinguistics ( Chapter 10). (You will have noticed immediately the interesting revival of the term dialectology in the first trend, made all the more interesting when we consider that the term geolinguistics was in the 1980s proposed as a new name for dialect study in its post-sociolinguistics form.) 7.2 The research that followed Labov’s New York City study In Chapter 6, I described Labov’s 1966 study of NYC English as the most seminal work of sociolinguistics. Labov’s early work helped found sociolin-guistics in general. More particularly, it created a productive strand of research within sociolinguistics, which we can call Labovian variationist sociolinguistics . After 1966, many researchers followed Labov’s lead, using and adapting his methods, interests, and aims in their own work. When reviewing this body of work in 2006, Labov himself characterized it as investigating language change and the structure of language by the study of linguistic variables in spon-taneous speech, using a representative sample of speakers from the speech community to provide the data (Labov, 1966/2006, p. 380). In his overview of this strand, the sociolinguist Robert Bayley (2013, p. 85) says that its central ideas are that ‘an understanding of language requires an understanding of variable as well as categorical [universal, invariable] processes and that vari-ation seen at all levels of language is not random’.

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  Linguistics: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself

  • David Hornsby(Author)
  • 2014(Publication Date)
  • Teach Yourself

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  Dialectological surveys provided a wealth of information about variation on a single dimension, that of geography, while keeping all other variables (age, sex, education, etc.) broadly constant. Their findings often yielded insights into the direction of change, but sociolinguists seeking to understand how change occurs had to take essentially the reverse approach, i.e. to hold the geographical variable constant by taking informants from a single place, and vary the other social variables. This was the task that two pioneers of variationist studies, William Labov and Peter Trudgill, set themselves in the 1960s and 1970s. Urban sociolinguistics: methodology and problems William Labov’s objective of investigating speech variation in a cross-section of speakers from New York City in the 1960s raised an immediate methodological problem: how could one gain access to the natural speech from informants who knew they were the subjects of investigation? How, in other words, could what became known as the Observer’s Paradox be overcome? An ingenious early response can be seen in his pilot study, undertaken with a team of researchers in three New York department stores: Saks, Macy’s and Klein’s, which could be graded as high, middle and low status respectively on a number of external criteria (e.g. prices of similar display goods, range of goods offered, publications in which the stores advertised). Labov focused on a single linguistic variable (i.e a speech form known to be used variably within a community), namely non-prevocalic /r/, which may be deleted in New York

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  Multilingualism and Pluricentricity

  A Tale of Many Cities

  • John Hajek, Catrin Norrby, Heinz L. Kretzenbacher, Doris Schüpbach, John Hajek, Catrin Norrby, Heinz L. Kretzenbacher, Doris Schüpbach(Authors)
  • 2023(Publication Date)
  • De Gruyter Mouton

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  Trudgill, Peter. 2021. East Anglian English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. →

  van Riemsdijk, Henk 1978. A case study in syntactic markedness: the binding nature of prepositional phrases. Dordrecht: de Ridder. →

  Vertovec, Steven. 2007. Super-diversity and its implications. Ethnic and Racial Studies 30(6). 1024–1054. →

  Weaver, Matthew. 2 February 2020. ‘Speak only English’ posters racially aggravated, say police. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/02/norwich-anti-racism-protest-brexit-day-poster (accessed 2 February 2020). →

  Wright, Laura. 2001. Some morphological features of the Norfolk guild certificates of 1388/9: an exercise in variation. In Jacek Fisiak & Peter Trudgill (eds.), East Anglian English, 79–162. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. →

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  1 East Anglia is a geographical area in the East of England, comprising the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

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  The city is more important than its size might suggest. The nearest place to Norwich that is bigger than Norwich is London, and Norwich was one of only 14 towns and cities to have an English Premier League football team in the 2021–22 season.

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  See e.g. Gorter and Cenoz (2017) for an overview of the range of research undertaken in linguistic landscape studies relating to multilingualism.

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  The Viking settlers in Norwich were Danes. Their language, Old Danish (800 ad

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