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Subject(s)

• German language—Dialects—Germany—Swabia [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in language change. [More in this series]
• Routledge Studies in Language Change Series

Summary note

This volume explores the use of the Swabian dialect in southwestern Germany. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, dialectology, and historical linguistics.

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Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Acknowledgments
• Symbols and conventions
• Codes and abbreviations
• Chapter 1 Introduction to lifespan and community change
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Challenges to the critical-period hypothesis
• 1.3 Approaches to studying language change
• 1.4 Individual and community patterns of linguistic change
• 1.5 Theoretical underpinnings and methodological framework for this book
• 1.6 Structure and contributions of this book
• Note
• Chapter 2 Methods for the study of real- and apparent-time language change
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 The Swabian language and people
• 2.3 The corpus
• 2.4 Data collection and preparation
• 2.4.1 Step 1: Sample selection
• 2.4.2 Step 2: Sociolinguistic interview
• 2.4.3 Step 3: Recording
• 2.4.4 Step 4: Transcription
• 2.4.5 Step 5: Validation
• 2.4.6 Step 6: Annotation
• 2.5 The linguistic variable(s)
• 2.5.1 Phonological variables
• 2.5.2 Morphosyntactic variables
• 2.6 Measuring dialect density
• 2.7 Sociodemographic factors of language change
• 2.7.1 Speaker community
• 2.7.2 Speaker gender
• 2.7.3 Speaker age
• 2.7.4 Speaker education
• 2.7.5 Speaker social class
• 2.8 Change in real- and apparent-time
• 2.9 Change across the lifespan
• 2.10 Individual and community change
• 2.11 Summary
• Notes
• Chapter 3 The speech community and urban-rural divide
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Speech communities
• 3.2.1 Stuttgart
• 3.2.2 Schwäbisch Gmünd
• 3.3 Urbanity and rurality
• 3.3.1 Regionality and dialect use
• 3.3.2 Community differences over time
• 3.3.3 The impact of higher education
• 3.4 The role of social networks
• 3.5 Coherence in the speech community
• 3.5.1 Covariation analysis
• 3.5.2 Measuring community coherence.
• 3.5.3 Variable weightings
• 3.6 Summary
• Chapter 4 Dialect contact, leveling, and supraregionalization
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Dialect contact and leveling
• 4.3 Rise of supralocal and supraregional varieties
• 4.4 Standard language convergence
• 4.5 Dialect leveling in Swabia
• 4.5.1 Frequency distributional analysis
• 4.5.2 Lifespan and community change
• 4.5.3 Interactions between the linguistic and social
• 4.6 Indexicalities of linguistic variables
• 4.6.1 Variable family
• 4.6.2 Variable salience
• 4.6.3 Variable stigma
• 4.6.4 Variable status
• 4.7 Supraregionalization in Swabia
• 4.8 Summary
• Chapter 5 Indexicalities of identity, accommodation, and mobility
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Linguistic accommodation
• 5.3 Local orientation and identity construction
• 5.4 Perpetual mobility and humanity
• 5.5 Cultural indices as indicators of dialect use
• 5.5.1 Local orientation
• 5.5.2 Interlocutor accommodation
• 5.5.3 Speaker mobility
• 5.6 Multivariate analysis
• 5.7 Summary
• Chapter 6 Lifespan and community change across the linguistic architecture
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 (ai) Diphthong
• 6.2.1 Background
• 6.2.2 Measuring diphthong trajectories
• 6.2.3 Diphthong change in real- and apparent-time
• 6.2.4 Local orientation and loss of diphthong contrast
• 6.2.5 Internal linguistic factors and diphthong change
• 6.2.6 The interaction of the linguistic and social
• 6.2.7 Discussion
• 6.3 wo-Relatives
• 6.3.1 Background
• 6.3.2 The linguistic variable and the envelope of variation
• 6.3.3 Frequency distribution of wo-relatives
• 6.3.4 Multivariate analysis of wo-relatives
• 6.3.5 Discussion
• 6.4 Summary
• Chapter 7 Conclusions and looking forward
• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Compatibility of combined panel and trend studies.
• 7.3 Dialect leveling and supraregionalization in Swabian
• 7.4 Indexicalities and social meaning
• 7.5 Methodological and theoretical contributions to the field of sociolinguistics
• 7.6 Opportunities for future research
• 7.7 Summary
• Appendices
• Appendix A: Interview documents
• Appendix B: Data transcription conventions
• Appendix C: E2R data extraction and annotation process
• Appendix D: Swabian-German Lexicon
• References
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-003-26733-5
• 1-003-85327-7

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