On the social meaning of linguistic variability in language death situations: Variation in Newfoundland French

King, Ruth

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“…As typical for a society with a dominant majority language and a minority language, the minority language is mostly used within the community, inside the family, and in informal contexts. The majority language, by contrast, is used in communication with the outside world, outside family, and in public domains (King, 1989:140, Tsunoda, 2006. As is typical in language endangerment situations marked by competition of the minority and majority languages for functional domains of use (e.g., King, 1989), the minority language in the Ganluo Ersu community is restricted to a limited set of domains.…”

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“…The majority language, by contrast, is used in communication with the outside world, outside family, and in public domains (King, 1989:140, Tsunoda, 2006. As is typical in language endangerment situations marked by competition of the minority and majority languages for functional domains of use (e.g., King, 1989), the minority language in the Ganluo Ersu community is restricted to a limited set of domains. The majority language, on the other hand, dominates the education system and work in public domains and it is consciously or unconsciously associated for Ersu speakers with high social status and opportunities for socio-economic advancement.…”

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A long way from New York City: Socially stratified contact-induced phonological convergence in Ganluo Ersu (Sichuan, China)

2018

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Labov's classic study, The Social Stratification of English in New York City (1966), paved the way for generations of researchers to examine sociolinguistic patterns in many different communities (Bell, Sharma, & Britain, 2016). This research paradigm has traditionally tended to focus on Western industrialized communities and large world languages and dialects, leaving many unanswered questions about lesserstudied indigenous minority communities. In this study, we examine whether Labovian models for age, sex, and social stratification (Labov, 1966(Labov, , 2001Trudgill, 1972Trudgill, , 1974 may be effectively applied to a small, endangered Tibeto-Burman language in southwestern China: Ganluo Ersu. Using new field recordings with 97 speakers, we find evidence of phonological change in progress as Ganluo Ersu consonants are converging toward Chinese phonology. The results suggest that when an endangered language undergoes convergence toward a majority language due to intense contact, this convergence is manifested in a socially stratified way that is consistent with many of the predictions of the classic Labovian sociolinguistic principles.

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Section: Functional Domains Of Language Use and Language Choicementioning

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A long way from New York City: Socially stratified contact-induced phonological convergence in Ganluo Ersu (Sichuan, China)

2018

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“…Gender does not typically influence variation in situations of shift because rapid linguistic changes tend to erase the effect of social factors other than age (King 1989;Russo and Roberts 1999;Dorian 1989Dorian , 1981.…”

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“…Our data was gathered through sociolinguistic French is endangered everywhere that it is spoken in the United States. If Franco-American were to follow the path of a great many other language varieties in decline, we would expect rapid linguistic change (e.g., structural simplification) to occur as the shift from French to English advances in New England (Rottet 2001;Russo and Roberts 1999;Mougeon and Béniak 1991;King 1989;Dorian 1981Dorian , 1989). …”

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The effects of grammatical proscription on morphosyntactic change: Auxiliary variation in Franco-American French

Stelling

2011

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The author explores the influence of grammatical proscription on morphosyntactic change (or lack thereof) in two Franco-American communities, based on data gathered through sociolinguistic interviews with French-English bilinguals from Southbridge, Massachusetts and Woonsocket, Rhode Island. A study of the use of passé composé shows that although a great deal of variation exists within the communities, language shift does not appear to be causing rapid linguistic change. The author also finds that, with the exception of community of residence, every social constraint considered was found to exercise a significant influence on variation. The analysis thus indicates that despite the sociolinguistic situation of language shift, the passé composé shows a high degree of resistance to grammatical simplification in both Southbridge and Woonsocket.L’auteur examine l’influence de la proscription grammaticale sur la variation et la stabilité morphosyntaxiques dans deux communautés franco-américaines, à partir des données recueillies par des interviews sociolinguistiques avec des locuteurs bilingues (français-anglais) de Southbridge au Massachusetts et de Woonsocket au Rhode Island. Une étude de l’emploi du passé composé révèle qu’en dépit d’un taux élevé de variation à l’intérieur des communautés, transfert linguistique vers l’anglais ne semble pas provoquer des changements linguistiques rapides. De plus, l’auteur a découvert qu’à l’exception de la communauté de résidence, chaque contrainte sociale observée exerce une influence significative sur la variation. Ainsi, l’analyse démontre que malgré la tendance sociolinguistique au transfert, le passé composé, tout autant à Southbridge et qu’à Woonsocket, fait preuve d’un grand degré de résistance envers la simplification grammaticale

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“…Abbi (1995), Austin (1986), Brenzinger (1997), Bunte and Kendall (1981), Campbell (1994), Campbell and Muntzel (1989), Clyne (1992), Cook (1989), Craig (1997), Dalton et al (1995), Denison (1977), Dorian (1973Dorian ( , 1978Dorian ( , 1981, Dressier (1972Dressier ( , 1981, Elmendorf (1981), Hamp (1989), Hill (1973Hill ( , 1978Hill ( , 1983Hill ( , 1989, Hill and Hill (1977, Huffines (1989), Jones (1998), Kapanga (1998), Kieffer (1977), Ruth King (1989), Maandi (1989), McGregor (2002), Miller (1971), Mithun (1989), Mougeon and Beniak (1989), Myers-Scotton (1998), Schmidt (1985aSchmidt ( , 1985b, Suwilai (1998), Allan R. Taylor (1989), Trudgill (1978), Tsitsipis (1989), Vakhtin (1998), and Voegelin and Voegelin (1977). Some of these studies are detailed, while others are sketchy.…”

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Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization : An Introduction

Tsunoda¹

2006

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On the social meaning of linguistic variability in language death situations: Variation in Newfoundland French

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A long way from New York City: Socially stratified contact-induced phonological convergence in Ganluo Ersu (Sichuan, China)

A long way from New York City: Socially stratified contact-induced phonological convergence in Ganluo Ersu (Sichuan, China)

The effects of grammatical proscription on morphosyntactic change: Auxiliary variation in Franco-American French

Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization : An Introduction

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