Language Standardization and Language Change: The Dynamics of Cape DutchLanguage Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or 'Cape Dutch' as it was then called) are analysed within the broad methodological framework of corpus linguistics and variation analysis. Multivariate statistical techniques (cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and PCA) are used to model the emergence of linguistic uniformity in the Cape Dutch speech community. The book also examines language contact and creolization in the early settlement, the role of Afrikaner nationalism in shaping language attitudes and linguistic practices, and the influence of English. As a case study in historical sociolinguistics the book calls into question the traditional view of the emergence of an Afrikaans standard norm, and advocates a strongly sociolinguistic, speaker-orientated approach to language history in general, and standardization studies in particular. |
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Table des matières
CHAPTER 7 | 221 |
CHAPTER 8 | 261 |
CHAPTER 9 | 276 |
Language standardization and language change | 297 |
References | 315 |
Index | 355 |
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Language Standardization and Language Change: The Dynamics of Cape Dutch Ana Deumert Aucun aperçu disponible - 2004 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
ablaut acrolectal adjective Afrikaans forms Apocope basilectal Besten bilingual C. P. Hoogenhout Cape Colony Cape Dutch Correspondence Cape Dutch Vernacular Cape Town Chapter cluster analysis colonial component continuum Corpus of Cape Creole Creole Languages cultural described dialect diffusion diglossia diglossic distance Donaldson early emerging English ethnic Euclidean distances example f-apocope F. S. Malan Figure frequency gaan gender German grammatical historical hulle individuals infinitive inflectional interpreted Johanna Katie Van Huyssteen Khoe language change language contact language standardization lexical linkage marker mesolectal metropolitan Dutch morphosyntactic Multidimensional scaling negation Nienaber niet nineteenth century non-standard noun Paarl past participle patterns person singular phonological Pidgin plural Ponelis PP_EN PP_T present tense preterite pronoun Raidt relatively Roberge SAL-MSC Scholtz settlers slaves social society sociolinguistic South African speakers speech community standard language standard norm statistically structure substrate taal Table texts tion variables varieties verbs writers
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Page 72 - The basic deception and self-deception practised by nationalism is this: nationalism is, essentially, the general imposition of a high culture on society, where previously low cultures had taken up the lives of the majority, and in some cases of the totality, of the population.
Page 108 - Scientists do tolerate uncertainty and frustration, because they must. The one thing that they do not and must not tolerate is disorder. The whole aim of theoretical science is to carry to the highest possible and conscious degree the perceptual reduction of chaos that began in so lowly and (in all probability) unconscious a way with the origin of life.
Page 54 - And just because so much of what subjectively makes up the modern ' nation ' consists of such constructs and is associated with appropriate and, in general, fairly recent symbols or suitably tailored discourse (such as 'national history'), the national phenomenon cannot be adequately investigated without careful attention to the 'invention of tradition'.
Page 72 - If the nationalism prospers it eliminates the alien high culture, but it does not then replace it by the old local low culture; it revives, or invents, a local high (literate, specialist-transmitted) culture of its own, though admittedly one which will have some links with the earlier local folk styles and dialects
Page 135 - Sir Alexander Dick tells me that he remembers having a thousand people in a year to dine at his house; that is, reckoning each person as one, each time that he dined there." JOHNSON. " That, Sir, is about three a day." BOSWELL. " How your statement lessens the idea !" JOHNSON. " That, Sir, is the good of counting. It brings everything to a certainty, which before floated in the mind indefinitely.
Page 75 - ... some of the assumptions of synchronic linguistics. Outside linguistics proper it promises material of great interest to social scientists in general, especially if a general frame of reference can be worked out for analysis of the use of one or more varieties of language within a speech community. Perhaps the collection of data and more profound study will drastically modify the impressionistic remarks of this paper, but if this is so the paper will have had the virtue of stimulating investigation...
Page 72 - It means that generalized diffusion of a school-mediated, academy-supervised idiom, codified for the requirements of reasonably precise bureaucratic and technological communication. It is the establishment of an anonymous, impersonal society, with mutually substitutable atomized individuals, held together above all by a shared culture of this kind...
Page 292 - ... the degree to which an innovation is perceived as relatively difficult to understand and use; • trialability, the degree to which an innovation may be experimented with on a limited basis, and • observability, the degree to which the results of an innovation are visible to others.
