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oapen-20.500.12657-328472022-08-31T07:03:16Z The future of dialects: Selected papers from Methods in Dialectology XV Côté, Marie-Hélène Knooihuizen, Remco Nerbonne, John dialectology dialects Isogloss Standard language Syntax bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics 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. 2016-12-31 23:55:55 2018-12-12 10:19:03 2020-04-01T14:20:36Z 2020-04-01T14:20:36Z 2016 book 603313 OCN: 945783724 9783946234197;9783946234203 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32847 eng Language Variation application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 603313.pdf http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/81 Language Science Press 10.26530/OAPEN_603313 10.26530/OAPEN_603313 0bad921f-3055-43b9-a9f1-ea5b2d949173 9783946234197;9783946234203 1 411 open access
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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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