The Role of Local Identity in the Usage and Recognition of Anglo-Cornish Dialect Lexis
Rhys Sandow
Abstract:Despite the well attested finding that orientation to place can exhibit correlations with sociolinguistic usage, the role of place identity in sociolinguistic variation and change has been long disputed. The disputes often center around two key points. Firstly, a contested point is whether observed identity effects are independent statistically meaningful effects or whether they are corollaries of effects relating to other socio-demographic features such as age or socioeconomic class. Secondly, when place iden… Show more
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