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Denne artikel beskæftiger sig med sammenhænge mellem mobilitet og sprogforandring i retning af mere standardnær sprogbrug. Hidtidige undersøgelser har kun haft adgang til optagelser med informanter, efter de har bevæget sig geografisk og socialt. Derfor kan de ikke give svar på, om årsagen til at de mobile informanter bruger færre lokale varianter end ikke-mobile informanter er, at de har bevæget sig geografisk og socialt, eller om de allerede brugte færre lokale varianter, før de flyttede. I artiklen præsenteres resultatet af den første undersøgelse, der har haft adgang til gamle og nye optagelser med de samme informanter. Undersøgelsen omfatter to grupper af informanter, én gruppe der har været geografisk og socialt mobil, og én der er blevet boende. Undersøgelsen er baseret på kvantitative analyser af udvalgte sprogtræk og kvalitative analyser af forhold knyttet til informanternes livshistorie og det sted, de er vokset op. Undersøgelsen viser, at de mobile informanter allerede som børn markerer sig sprogligt anderledes og benytter færre lokale varianter end de bofaste informanter. Ved at inddrage informanter fra tre forskellige dialektområder viser det sig, at sammenhænge mellem mobilitet og sprogforandring er mere komplekse end som så og blandt andet hænger sammen med det sted, informanterne kommer fra.
This article presents the results of a quantitative analysis of language variation and place attachment in two different places in Denmark—a rural, mono-ethnic village where traditional dialect is still used in everyday practices, and a multiethnic suburban social housing district where speakers use features associated with regional dialect and multiethnic youth styles. It is argued that variationist sociolinguistics, dialect research, as well as sociolinguistics that foregrounds situated interaction analysis need to develop methodologies that include and combine information about speakers’ individual mobility histories, local practices, and future orientations in relation to language use and place. For this purpose, this study employs a quantified measure, an index of local attachment, of speakers’ attachment to their local area. The index is calculated on the basis of insights from ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, and is compared to the variation of three linguistic variables in each location. Results show differences between the two places, the rural and the urban communities, as well as between individuals that can be explained by differences in place affordances, life histories, and future orientation. (Place, local attachment, mobility, dialect, multiethnic speech style, quantitative analysis)*
In this article I present the result of my PhD study, which is the first real time panel-study made of the interrelationship between dialect change and mobility. The informants in the study are from three municipalities situated in different Danish dialect areas: Odder in Central Jutland, Vinderup in Western Jutland and Tinglev in Southern Jutland. The first interviews (1978)(1979)(1980)(1981)(1982)(1983)(1984)(1985)(1986)(1987)(1988)(1989) were recorded as part of studies conducted at Copenhagen University and the Department of Border Region Studies. The informants were re-interviewed between 2005 and 2010 by researchers from the LANCHART Center and researchers at the University of Southern Denmark.In the article the language change of six informants who have been geographically and socially mobile between the two recordings is compared to that of 17 geographically non-mobile informants. I present quantitative and qualitative analyses of the data. The two main quantitative findings are that the mobile speakers use fewer local features than the non-mobile speakers even before they are mobile, and that the degree of language change differs among the mobile informants from the three dialect areas. Based on the qualitative analyses I argue that differences in geographic and social orientation -i.e. mental mobility -can help explain differences between the language use of mobile and non-mobile informants. Following theories of place from human geography, I also suggest that place effects can help explain the differen ces between the language change of both mobile and nonmobile informants.
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