The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich

Trudgill, Peter

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“…Las aproximaciones desarrolladas por los estudios dialectológicos tradicionales y los geolingüísticos se plantean para grupos sociales en un macro-nivel de interacción mientras que las desarrolladas mediante la investigación sociolingüística, o microsociolingüística concretamente, lo hacen para los individuos en un micro-nivel de interacción. Sabemos que, con sus reproducciones cartográficas descriptivas de las diferencias dialectales, los dialectólogos tradicionales han sido considerados en muchas ocasiones como 'meros coleccionistas de mariposas' e incluso practicantes de una especie de 'arqueología lingüística', sobre todo por el desfase existente en los presupuestos teóricos, objetos de estudio, métodos y técnicas empleadas; pero también es cierto que, como Peter Trudgill (1992: 72) sostiene, sin sus descripciones llevadas a cabo entonces antes de que los dialectos regionales tradicionales desaparecieran, no se podría haber hecho uso de esos datos en análisis posteriores como, por ejemplo, los estudios sociolingüísticos de William Labov (1966) en Martha's Vineyard y Nueva York y Trudgill (1974a) en Norwich. No es menos cierto tampoco que los modelos de difusión ofrecidos por la Geolingüística, presentan ventajas, desventajas e incluso inconvenientes.…”

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La geolingüística: consideraciones sobre la dimensión espacial del lenguaje

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1999

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Until very recently, the concepts of space and spatialiíy and their, on the other hand, necessary integration in the social theory have played a role as scarcely emphasized as marginal in the evolution of the sociological thought. Time, in lerms of historical developments, has always been considered as the principie contextual unit of social Iheory, while space, on the contrary, has been a secóndary dimensión. Linguistics has also taken part in this historicism that has excluded spatial aspects ("rom its both dialectological and sociolinguistic studies. It has been with the advent of the New Human Geography arisen from the quantitative revolution when space and spaciality have become relevant not only in Social and Human Sciences in general but also in Linguistics in particular. The aim of this paper is to show and analyze the consequences of this interdisciplinary revolution which has resulted in a new discipline called Geolinguistics conceived as the confluence of Dialectology, Sociolinguistics and Human Geography. I. Introducción: el Espacio y la Espacialidad en las Ciencias Sociales y HumanasHasta muy recientemente, los conceptos de espacio y espacialidad y su, por otra parte, necesaria, integración en la teoría social han jugado un papel tan poco destacado como marginal en el desarrollo del pensamiento sociológico. En efecto, el tiempo, traducido en desarrollos históricos, siempre se ha considerado la unidad contextual principal de la teoría social, mientras que, por el contrario, al espacio se le ha relegado a una posición ciertamente secundaria. Esta predilección por los aspectos temporales más que por los espaciales ha sido criticada de forma 65

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La geolingüística: consideraciones sobre la dimensión espacial del lenguaje

Campoy¹

1999

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“…However, these researchers (Labov, 1966;Trudgill, 1974;Milroy & Milroy, 1978;Milroy, 1980;Mendoza-Denton, 2002;Bucholtz& Hall, 2005;Gonzales, 2009;Burnett (2017) ;Mora, 2017;Rosendal, 2017;Gündüz, 2017) who have studied this phenomenon in these fields suggest that the construction of identity through communication needs a separate investigation through the contemporary lens applied for the digital era. Therefore, this research focuses particularly on the strategies employed for constructing different identities such as regional, gender, tribal, religious through communication.…”

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Constructing Identities Online- An Exploratory Study of Saudi Youths’ Strategies

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Language is used not only for communication but also for enacting multiple identities to reveal information about oneself such as who we are, where we come from, who we believe in etc. This is done by means of using a tribe, gender, region or a country specific dialect, accent, sociolect, vocabulary or phrase to identify oneself with a specific tribe, gender, social class or ethnic group, a region or a nation. Greetings such as-'Assalamualeikum' ('peace be with you'), 'God bless', 'Shalom' ('peace') are used by people to identify oneself with a particular faith (Muslim, Christian and Jewish respectively). Thus, language use serves here as a means of constructing religious identity. Region and tribe specific dialects, accents and sociolects are also used to construct regional, social class, ethnic or tribal identities. This process of identity construction occurs both in the real world as well as in a virtual reality on-line, where people can either take their real identity with them or construct an on-line identity that can be as divergent as they wish. As on-line communication gains significance in everyone's life, research on the nature of this communication is required to uncover various underlying issues governing this type of communication. In this respect, the present study aimed to explore the strategies and ways in which language and other means were used by Saudi Arabian youths to construct and enact their various identities such as gender, social class, tribal, regional, religious etc. To this end, a social networking website was designed and Saudi youths (aged between 18 to 30 years) were invited to participate by posting and chatting online on the website. Of such posts, around 300 comments were selected for the content analysis. The analysis of these comments posted by 71 Saudi females and 85 males over two months revealed that Saudi youths used their language on-line to construct and enact their gender, tribal, regional, religious identities. Participants were seen to be using their tribe, region, gender, religion and Arab culture related words and phrases to construct and reveal their tribal, regional, gender, religious and cultural identities consciously and unconsciously.

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“…The approach is exemplified in the work of scholars such as Wolfram ( , 1977 and Trudgill (1974). Trudgill (1974) documented the co-variation of phonological and sociological of the variable (ng) in Norwich English to provide insight on the social class utilizing the (ng) variable and stylistic differentiation.…”

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“…Trudgill was able to investigate; (i) the nature of the correlation between realizations of phonological variables and social class, social context and sex, (ii) to discover which variables are subject to social class differentiation and which to stylistic variation and (iii) to find out which variables are most important in signaling the social context of some linguistic interaction or the social class of a speaker. He concludes that the proportion of the /n/ to /ŋ/ endings deals with the social class of the speaker and the social context in which they are speaking (Trudgill 1974).…”

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“…In the 20 th century established work in the field included research in Germany by Bach (1950), Dauzut (1944) and Pop (1950) on French and Kurath (1949), Kurath and McDavid (1961) in the United States which gave classical examples for successive work on the categorization of dialects in the United Kingdom (Brook, 1963) and other parts of Asia, including regional work on Japanese by Tokugawa and Kato (1966), Fujuwara (1967) and Kandori (1968) and Yiddish by Weinreich (1962, 1969 and further by Ramson (1970) By the 1960s predominately in the US but also in the UK, a new approach of studying variants and dialects began to shift from a regional account of differences in lexical, phonological and morphosyntactic forms to studying continuing variation and change in specific speech communities, such as urban areas, and also the inclusion of the linguistic variable to compare their quantitative relationship to social factors such as age, gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, style or internal linguistic factors (Labov 1963(Labov , 1966) (Trudgill 1974 …”

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