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Dialect Contact

From Speaker to Community-Based Perspectives

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individualsDialect 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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Utgivningsdatum2025-01-02
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt295 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieGeorgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
Antal sidor212
FörlagGeorgetown University Press
ISBN9781647125028

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Víctor Fernández-Mallat is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. He is an editor of Linguistic Landscapes and Educational Spaces (2021) and has published articles in journals like the Journal of Pragmatics and Intercultural Pragmatics. Jennifer Nycz is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of Second Dialect Acquisition: Theory and Methods (2015).

Chapter 1: A Multi-level Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of Dialect ContactVíctor Fernández-Mallat and Jennifer NyczChapter 2: Dialect Leveling and Supralocalization in a Rural Community: Generational Change from 7:35 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in RicoteLaura Torrano-Moreno and Juan M. Hernández-CampoyChapter 3: Da isch einfach eine Sehnsucht danach 'There is simply a longing for it': Indexicalities of dialect convergence and renewal in SwabianKaren V. BeamanChapter 4: Focusing and Feature Complexity in Amman ArabicEnam Al-Wer and Areej Al-HawamdehChapter 5: Unwitting Convergence: Kolokwa and Liberian Settler EnglishAllison Shapp, Michael Marinaccio, and John Victor SinglerChapter 6: The Relative Acquirability of Different Types of Dialect Features by Mobile Speakers of KoreanYoojin KangChapter 7: Interaction, Confounding Effect, and Collinearity in the Analysis of Brazilian Internal Migrants' SpeechLivia OushiroChapter 8: On the (Non-)Uniformity of Contact Outcomes: A Comparison of Spanish in New York City and BostonDaniel ErkerChapter 9: T-Flapping in Singapore English: Americanization, Innovation, or Both?Wesley Mark Lincoln and Rebecca Lurie StarrChapter 10: Making Things Easier: The Pragmatism behind Second Dialect AcquisitionAbby WalkerContributorsIndex