Salience and resilience in a set of Tyneside English shibboleths

Discrete bilectalism: towards co-overt prestige and diglossic shift in Cyprus

“…Again, an oppositional stance towards H is not typical in diglossic societies, where the domain split is functionally determined, and it is not ideological or individual-based. In the current state of affairs in Cyprus, nonetheless, there is a perception -and concomitant anxiety -about impending dialect loss and dialect death (see Auer 2005b;Rowe 2009). This does result in an oppositional stance to H -in other words, towards diglossic breakdown.…”

“…Similarly, Auer (2005b) notes the existence of intra-diglossic stratification in most European societies, especially in cases of "attenuated diglossia", and argues that it is when double continua merge into a single continuum that diglossic breakdown results -in the form of diaglossia. 13 Eventually, in the face of societal consciousness of dialect loss, new trends emerge, and even conservative guardians of language purity and language prescription join ranks with more socially and educationally liberal forces in society espousing language heritage and dialect conservation (see Auer 2005aAuer , 2005bRowe 2009). 14 Still, as long as variety choice is domain-driven rather than speaker-determined, the Greek Cypriot speech community has not yet achieved diaglossia or social dialectia.…”