Diffusion of Language Change: Accommodation to a Moving Target
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Diffusion of Language Change: Accommodation to a Moving Target. / Maegaard, Marie; Jensen, Torben Juel; Kristiansen, Tore; Jørgensen, J. Normann.
I: Journal of Sociolinguistics, Bind 17, Nr. 1, 2013, s. 3-36.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Diffusion of Language Change: Accommodation to a Moving Target
AU - Maegaard, Marie
AU - Jensen, Torben Juel
AU - Kristiansen, Tore
AU - Jørgensen, J. Normann
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The paper focuses on motivations for the spread of new features within a speech community, and on the trajectories the changes follow during diffusion. One set of data represents language use, and here focus is on two changes which have been going on in Danish over the past 40 years, one grammatical and one phonetic. The other set of data are results from a nationwide speaker evaluation experiment which tests the subconscious attitudes to different types of speech among the youth in five different places covering Denmark from east to west. Results show that changes spread centrifugally from Copenhagen, even to the extent that reversal of changes spreads from Copenhagen. Furthermore, the attitudes reflected in the speaker evaluation experiment support the theory that language change is motivated by social psychological factors. Finally, it is argued that it is worthwhile considering the possibility of media being involved in processes of linguistic change.
AB - The paper focuses on motivations for the spread of new features within a speech community, and on the trajectories the changes follow during diffusion. One set of data represents language use, and here focus is on two changes which have been going on in Danish over the past 40 years, one grammatical and one phonetic. The other set of data are results from a nationwide speaker evaluation experiment which tests the subconscious attitudes to different types of speech among the youth in five different places covering Denmark from east to west. Results show that changes spread centrifugally from Copenhagen, even to the extent that reversal of changes spreads from Copenhagen. Furthermore, the attitudes reflected in the speaker evaluation experiment support the theory that language change is motivated by social psychological factors. Finally, it is argued that it is worthwhile considering the possibility of media being involved in processes of linguistic change.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Language change
KW - real time
KW - grammatical variation
KW - phonetic
KW - language attitudes
KW - standardization
U2 - 10.1111/josl.12002
DO - 10.1111/josl.12002
M3 - Journal article
VL - 17
SP - 3
EP - 36
JO - Journal of Sociolinguistics
JF - Journal of Sociolinguistics
SN - 1360-6441
IS - 1
ER -
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