Language Standardization and Language Change: The Dynamics of Cape Dutch

Couverture
John Benjamins Publishing, 1 janv. 2004 - 361 pages
0 Avis
Language 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.
 

Avis des internautes - Rédiger un commentaire

Aucun commentaire n'a été trouvé aux emplacements habituels.

Table des matières

History
11
CHAPTER 2
45
CHAPTER 3
77
An introduction
105
CHAPTER 5
135
CHAPTER 6
146
Morpholexical and syntactic variation
179
CHAPTER 7
221
CHAPTER 8
261
CHAPTER 9
276
Language standardization and language change
297
References
315
Index
355
Droits d'auteur

Autres éditions - Tout afficher

Expressions et termes fréquents

Fréquemment cités

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.

Références à ce livre

Variation and Reconstruction
Thomas D. Cravens
Aucun aperçu disponible - 2006
Tous les résultats Google Recherche de Livres »

Informations bibliographiques