Standards and Variation in Urban Speech is an examination and exploration of the aims and methods of sociolinguistic investigation, based on studies of Scottish urban speech.
Irish English is both the oldest overseas variety of English and, thanks to its co-existence with Irish Gaelic, one of the longest-documented examples of a contact-influenced language variety.
This book, based on revised papers originally delivered at the VII International Systemic Functional Workshop in Valencia in 1995, explores some of the choices open to speakers and writers for the expression of meaning in different socio-cultural contexts.
Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research on standard language acquisition, little attention has been given to the mechanisms underlying second dialect acquisition.
Basic notions in the field of creole studies, including the category of “creole languages” itself, have been questioned in recent years: Can creoles be defined on structural or on purely sociohistorical grounds?
This brief monograph explores the historical motivations for two sets of phonological changes in some varieties of Romance: restructured voicing of intervocalic /p t k/, and palatalization of initial /l/ and /n/.
This volume, a detailed empirical study of the creole English spoken in the Bahamian capital, Nassau, contributes to our understanding of both urban creoles and tense-aspect marking in creoles.
Containing all new material and published for the American Dialect Society's centennial celebration (1889-1989), this volume bings together in one place, as no previously published work has, current approaches to the general problems of language distribution and variation.
This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPE’s structure and sociolinguistics.
This lucid and theory-neutral introduction to the study of pidgins, creoles and mixed languages covers both theoretical and empirical issues pertinent to the field of contact linguistics.
Recent years have seen a growing interest in linguistic phenomena whose formal manifestation and underlying licensing conditions represent the convergence of two or more areas of the grammar, an area of investigation particularly invigorated in recent generative research by developments such as phase theory (cf.
La variedad lingüística que denominamos "habla de negro literaria" era, en el siglo XVI, imitación de una interlengua propia de aprendices de español como L2.
Vom (Wort-)Witz der WienerArik Brauer is a echts Weana Kind – aufgewachsen in Ottakring, hat er den Wiener Dialekt von klein auf mitbekommen und gelernt zu reden, wia eam da Schnåbe gwåksn is.
Von Mainz bis Worms dient »der Schambes«, der Klassiker unter der hiesigen Mundart-Literatur, dem stillen Amüsieren und regen Gebrauch: Der Ur-Rhoihesse – mithin der angesprochene Schambes (= rheinhessische Verballhornung des Vornamens Jean-Baptiste) – kann seinen Schimpf-Wortschatz ergänzen, während die jüngere Generation endlich das Schennen (= Schimpfen) der Großeltern versteht.
Ein verliebter Engel mit Gewichten an den Schwingen, ein schweigendes Telefon, schwarz wie das der Totengräber, ein müder Mond, der faul auf dem Rücken liegt: Manfred Kerns Liebes- und Schmähgedichte erzählen auf humorvolle, schonungslose, aber auch melancholische Art und Weise von Sehnsüchten, Lebenskrisen und der Brüchigkeit des Glücks – in einfühlsamen wie einmaligen Bildern und Tönen, die wohl nur der Dialekt zu finden vermag.
Das moderne und schön bebilderte Wörterbuch über den Aachener Dialekt – Öcher Platt – übersetzt mit Charme und Augenzwinkern die alltäglichen Aachener Begriffe, die wir alle so sehr lieben.
