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.
Contributions by:
Jennifer Nycz,
Víctor Fernández-Mallat,
Laura Torrano-Moreno
Edited by:
Víctor Fernández-Mallat,
Jennifer Nycz
Imprint: Georgetown University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9781647125011
ISBN 10: 1647125014
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 02 January 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter 1: A Multi-level Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of Dialect ContactVíctor Fernández-Mallat and Jennifer Nycz Chapter 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-Campoy Chapter 3: Da isch einfach eine Sehnsucht danach 'There is simply a longing for it': Indexicalities of dialect convergence and renewal in SwabianKaren V. Beaman Chapter 4: Focusing and Feature Complexity in Amman ArabicEnam Al-Wer and Areej Al-Hawamdeh Chapter 5: Unwitting Convergence: Kolokwa and Liberian Settler EnglishAllison Shapp, Michael Marinaccio, and John Victor Singler Chapter 6: The Relative Acquirability of Different Types of Dialect Features by Mobile Speakers of KoreanYoojin Kang Chapter 7: Interaction, Confounding Effect, and Collinearity in the Analysis of Brazilian Internal Migrants' SpeechLivia Oushiro Chapter 8: On the (Non-)Uniformity of Contact Outcomes: A Comparison of Spanish in New York City and BostonDaniel Erker Chapter 9: T-Flapping in Singapore English: Americanization, Innovation, or Both?Wesley Mark Lincoln and Rebecca Lurie Starr Chapter 10: Making Things Easier: The Pragmatism behind Second Dialect AcquisitionAbby Walker ContributorsIndex
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).
