scholarly journals Linguistic Variation and Change in Nawfija Speech Community

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 741-749
Author(s):  
Nwagalaku Chineze ◽  
Obiora Harriet Chinyere ◽  
Christopher Chinedu Nwike
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Equal Footing ◽  
The Creation

The focus of this study is on linguistic change and variation in the Nawfija speech community. It distinguished dialect from other similar words and contrasted the traditional Igbo dialect with the Nawfija dialect of the Igbo language on an equal footing. The types of dialectal variations found in the Igbo Nawfija dialect were investigated in this study, as well as the question of dialect supremacy. For the creation of standard Igbo, some suggestions have been made.

Synchronic variability and diachronic change in basic color terms

1975 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Kay
Keyword(s):  
Language Change ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
General Statement ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Color Terms ◽  
Diachronic Change ◽  
Color Term ◽  
Basic Color ◽  
Basic Color Terms

AbstractThe main purpose of this paper is to relate recent findings regarding the evolution of basic color term systems to current research in linguistic variation and language change. More specifically it is to provide in the area of lexical semantics a demonstration of the hypothesis that all linguistic change has its roots in synchronic heterogeneity of the speech community (cf. Weinreich, Labov & Herzog (1968: 188) for a general statement of this position, also many empirical demonstrations already reported, such as those by Labov (1972) and Wang (1969) in phonology and by Bickerton (1973) in syntax). Before taking up this topic, I summarize some recent revisions in the basic color term theory itself. (Ethnographic semantics, color terms, language variation, evolutionary universals in linguistic change.)

Variation and third age: A sociolinguistic perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (s2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Schreier
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Change ◽  
National Council ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Third Age ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Style Shifting ◽  
Age Grading ◽  
Ethnic Group Membership

Abstract The correlation between external factors such as age, gender, ethnic group membership and language variation is one of the stalwarts of sociolinguistic theory. The repertoire of individual members of speaker groups, vis-à-vis community-wide variation, represents a somewhat slippery ground for developing and testing models of variation and change and has been researched with reference to accommodation (Bell 1984), style shifting (Rickford, John R. & MacKenzie Price. 2013. Girlz II women: Age-grading, language change and stylistic variation. Journal of Sociolinguistics 17. 143–179) and language change generally (Labov, William. 2001. Principles of linguistic change, vol. 2: Social factors. Oxford: Blackwell). This paper presents and assesses some first quantitative evidence that non-mobile older speakers from Tristan da Cunha, an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, who grew up in an utterly isolated speech community, vary and shift according to external interview parameters (interviewer, topic, place of interview). However, while they respond to the formality of the context, they display variation (both regarding speakers and variables) that is not in line with the constraints attested elsewhere. These findings are assessed with focus on the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in third-age speakers (particularly style-shifting, Labov, William. 1964. Stages in the acquisition of Standard English. In Roger Shuy, Alva Davis & Robert Hogan (eds.), Social Dialects and Language Learning, 77–104. Champaign: National Council of Teachers of English) and across the life-span generally.

Identity, ideology, and attitude in Syrian rural child and adolescent speech

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-67
Author(s):  
Rania Habib
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Young Age ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Linguistic Ideologies ◽  
Rural Child ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
Linguistic Behavior ◽  
The Village

Through ethnographic investigation, this study shows that the different linguistic behavior of girls and boys in the village of Oyoun Al-Wadi in Syria is due to gendered linguistic ideologies and attitudes that are utilized in different ways to project gendered (feminine or masculine) and spatial (local or supralocal) identities. Social meanings are gleaned from the naturally occurring speech of 72 speakers aged 6–18 and 29–57 to illuminate the ideologies and attitudes that result in inter- and intra-speaker variation between and among boys and girls and highlight the importance of both the community of practice and the speech community in investigating linguistic variation. The study also highlights the growth of the children’s sociolinguistic competence and their awareness from a very young age of the ideologies and attitudes that exist in their community and their capability to build on them. The results of this awareness are highly observed in preadolescents, particularly boys.

scholarly journals Sociolingvistická situace psaných slovanských jazyků v 1. polovině 18. století

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-40
Author(s):  
Vladislav Knoll
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Function Structure ◽  
Complex Image ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Creation ◽  
National Languages

The main aim of the article is to present a complex image of the diversity, use and functions of written Slavonic idioms in the first half of the 18th century, which is the period that shortly precedes the creation of the modern national languages. This detailed view shows that the number of the written varieties was much larger, and the function structure of the single languages and varieties in each speech community was more complex than now. The article also discusses the methodological issues linked to the studies on the pre-national languages and tries to find the common patterns of variety hierarchy in each of the main cultural areas of the Slavonic world.

The Recent Internationalization of Brazilian Companies

2012 ◽  
pp. 590-618
Author(s):  
Glauco Arbix ◽  
Luiz Caseiro
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Equal Footing ◽  
Special Analysis ◽  
Regional Markets ◽  
Advanced Economies ◽  
Productive Structure ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
A Share

The recent wave of internationalization among Brazilian companies differs from past experiences, in terms of volume, reach, destination and quality. Brazilian multinationals are not restricting their activities solely to regional markets, nor are their first steps entirely directed towards South America. In amount of investment and number of subsidiaries there are signs they prefer assets and activities in advanced markets—including Europe and North America—where they compete on an equal footing with major conglomerates for a share of these markets. Some Brazilian companies have previous internationalization experience, and a significant portion had been prepared and initiated outward growth in the 1990s, after the economy opened up. However, the boom of internationalization that began in 2004 took place in such unusual conditions as to deserve highlight and special analysis. This chapter discusses the recent expansion of Brazilian multinationals as a result of: (1) the functioning of a more responsive and targeted system of financing, (2) transformation of the Brazilian productive structure, which led to the emergence of a group of companies seeking internationalization as a strategy, (3) preference for seeking more advanced economies as a means to expand access to new markets and suppliers, as well as to absorb innovations and technology, (4) the State’s performance in several dimensions, especially in financing the implementation of policies which support the creation of large national groups with a presence in the globalized market.

Linguistic change in El Pont de Suert: The study of variation of /3/

1990 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuria Alturo ◽  
Ma. Teresa Turell
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Linguistic Variables ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Geographic Factors

ABSTRACTCatalan sociolinguistics has investigated in depth the uses of Catalan and the attitudes toward it but has only analyzed very sporadically the mechanisms of linguistic change in this language. The study presented in this article is an attempt to describe an ongoing linguistic change that has been observed in a speech community (E1 Pont de Suert) of the Alta Ribagorça, a region in Catalonia (Spain) where the borderline between Catalan and Aragonese, a variety of Spanish, can be delimited. The purpose of this article is twofold. First, the article seeks to demonstrate that a gradual substitution of the autochthonous variant [t∫] by the normative [3] of the phoneme /3/ appears to be taking place in El Pont de Suert, and to determine, at the same time, the linguistic and social factors that favor this substitution. Second, its purpose is to analyze the variation of this phoneme in relation to not only geographic but also social and linguistic variables; this is because a study that considers only geographic factors would describe the characteristics that differentiate the Ribagorca speech from other Catalan speech varieties but would not account for the existing variation in the use of both the voiceless affricate and the voiced fricative.

scholarly journals O locus da língua: reflexões metateóricas acerca da noção de língua como um fato social em William Labov (The locus of language: metatheoretical reflections on the notion of language as a social fact in William Labov)

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Daniel Marra ◽  
Sebastião Elias Milani
Keyword(s):  
Speech Community ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Social Fact

Este artigo trata da noção de língua como um fato social e de sua reelaboração empreendida por William Labov. Adotando uma postura antirreducionista, Labov considera desnecessário recorrer às bases psiquicoindividuais ao explicar o fenômeno da mudança linguística. Recorre, para tanto, à noção de comunidade de fala como o legítimo locus da língua. Tal postura deixa emergir certas incongruências teórico-metodológicas.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: William Labov. Língua. Fato Social. Comunidade de Fala. Indivíduo. ABSTRACT This article deals with the notion of language as a social fact and its reworking undertaken by William Labov. Adopting an antireductionist posture, Labov considers it unnecessary to rely on the psychoindividual bases to explain the phenomenon of linguistic change. He resorts, thus, to the concept of speech community as the legitimate locus of language. Such attitude allows the emergence of certain theoretical and methodological inconsistencies.KEYWORDS: William Labov. Language. Social Fact. Speech Community. Individual.

scholarly journals A INTER-RELAÇÃO DA CONCORDÂNCIA NOMINAL E DA CONCORDÂNCIA NOS PREDICATIVOS/PARTICÍPIOS PASSIVOS, SOB O ENFOQUE DA TEORIA DA VARIAÇÃO E MUDANÇA LINGÜÍSTICA

Organon ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (28-29) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juçá Fialho Dias ◽  
Marisa Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Linguistic Variables ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Number Agreement ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
The Relationship

This paper intends to examine the relationship between nominalagreement and number agreement in predicative/participle passive, according toFernandes (1996) and Vazzata-Dias (1996), respectively. In this study, we analysethe speech of residents of Florianópolis, investigating two linguistic variables,Formal Paralelism and Phonic Salience, in order to verify, respectively, thehipothesis that plural markers promote plural markers and zero plural markerspromote zero plural markers and that regular plural, because are least distinctive,have lowest probability of agreement. We also investigate three social variables(Sex, age and level of education) in order to verify mainly some indication of stablevariation or linguistic change in progress. The research is conducted throughoutusing the theorical principle of the theory of linguistic variation (Weinreich, Labov& Herzog, 1968, Labov, 1972 and 1994). For quantitative data processing, weused the VARBRUL programs, version 1988/1992.

Sociolinguïstiek En Dialectologie

1992 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 115-130
Author(s):  
Johan Taeldeman
Keyword(s):  
Language Change ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Psychological Dimension ◽  
Geographical Dimension ◽  
Dialect Geography

In this confrontative article I take stock of what socioiinguistics and dialec-tology (= dialect geography), in spite of (or thanks to?) their own focus and their own theoretical underpinnings, have contributed to the study of language change. This confrontation consists of two parts: First (4.1.) I deal with those aspects where socioiinguistics has contributed substantially to the exploration of language change and at the same time has had a renewing influence on dialectology: 1) Sociolinguists have started measuring the functional/communicative strength of linguistic varieties that in a certain area may supply competing variants. 2) By all kinds of micro-research into linguistic variation in correlation with social and situational factors socioiinguistics has drawn a much more refined picture of the process of language change. 3) Socioiinguistics has reintroduced attention to the psychological dimension of language change ( _ inquiries into the attitudes towards compet-ing varieties and variants and into the awareness of social differentiation in language). In a second part (4.2.) I deal with those aspects where the contribution of dialectology has been more substantial and where socioiinguistics urgently needs some broadening: 1) In general dialectologists have better recognized that linguistic varia-tion (as a random indication of language change) is also embedded in the systemic dimension of language. This prevents the investigation of (linguistic) variety for variety's sake. 2) Dialectology permanently instructs sociolinguists that linguistic variation (and hence language change) also occurs along a spa-tial/geographical dimension. 3) The dialogist's traditional tool, the dialect map with the so often (unjustly) abused isogloss, provides the socioiinguistics with lots of interesting instructions where as to catch linguistic change in progress. In general both disciplines display such a delicious complementarity that (sterile) discussions about their mutual demarcation should urgently be replaced by a thorough examination of each other's methods and findings.

Continuity and Convergence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Farriss
Keyword(s):  
Moral Theology ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
New Associations ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Religious Devotion ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Visual Symbols ◽  
Oral Evidence ◽  
Cultural Gaps ◽  
Christian Message

Continuities in written doctrinal language contrast with semantic shifts within the indigenous speech community, revealed through petitions, testaments, trial testimony, and other records, as well as modern oral evidence. As the Mesoamerican cultural matrix has itself been modified by Christian practice and visual symbols, new associations have become attached to traditional linguistic resources. At the same time the Indians have reformulated and reinterpreted the Christian message along lines consonant with traditional cosmology and moral theology. Thus cultural gaps, and along with them linguistic gaps, have narrowed through the process of religious syncretism. Mutually reinforcing influences have converged in the creation of the particular variety of religious devotion defined as Mexican Christianity.

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