The future of dialects
Selected papers from Methods in Dialectology XV
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Author
Contributions
- Nerbonne, John - Contributor
- Côté, Marie-Hélène - Contributor
Publication
2016 - Language Science Press, No place, unknown, or undetermined
Language
English
Word Count
102,750 words, Guess
Page Count
411 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28359466M
- ISBN-139783946234180
- OCLC Control Number965200393
Classifications
- LCCP367 .I5 2014
Description
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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