Bellamy Language Attitudes in England and Austria

A Sociolinguistic Investigation into Perceptions of High and Low-Prestige Varieties in Manchester and Vienna
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-515-10291-9
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band Band 151, 245 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik – Beihefte

In both Manchester and Vienna, there is much anecdotal evidence about the social implications of one's spoken language variety. However, the evaluation of a person's character based on the way they speak might not necessarily be the same in different countries with different languages. If evaluations of a speaker's social class, professional status and general character change according to the country and language, then in which ways?

By applying a very similar methodological framework in each of these cities, this study sets out to examine the extent to which perceptions of a speaker may vary with the social and linguistic context of each urban environment.

Many sociolinguistic studies have already investigated how the way we talk influences the perceptions others have of us. The research presented in this e-book expands on this idea by directly comparing data across two nations with two different languages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bellamy, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;CONTENTS;6
2;LIST OF TABLES;9
3;LIST OF FIGURES;13
4;ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS;18
5;1 INTRODUCTION;20
6;2 TOWARDS A TYPOLOGY OF LINGUISTIC VARIATION;22
6.1;2.1 LANGUAGE VARIETY;22
6.2;2.2 LANGUAGE VARIETIES AND SPEECH IN ENGLAND;24
6.3;2.3 LANGUAGE VARIETIES AND SPEECH IN AUSTRIA;28
6.4;2.4 HIGH AND LOW-PRESTIGE VARIETIES AND THE STANDARD DIALECT CONTINUUM;33
6.5;2.5 LANGUAGE ATTITUDES;38
7;3 BACKGROUND;44
7.1;3.1 PREVIOUS STUDIES INTO LANGUAGE ATTITUDES IN BRITAIN;44
7.2;3.2 PREVIOUS STUDIES INTO LANGUAGE ATTITUDES IN AUSTRIA;54
8;4 METHODOLOGY;64
8.1;4.1 MATCHED-GUISE TECHNIQUE (MGT);64
8.2;4.2 EVALUATION OF THE MATCHED-GUISE TECHNIQUE;79
8.3;4.3 QUESTIONNAIRE;82
8.4;4.4 RECORDINGS;87
8.5;4.5 PILOT STUDIES;90
8.6;4.6 FIELDWORK;91
8.7;4.7 PROCESSING THE FINDINGS;97
9;5 MANCHESTER FIELDWORK: RESULTS;98
9.1;5.1 MATCHED-GUISE TECHNIQUE IN MANCHESTER: OVERALL RESULTS;99
9.2;5.2 MATCHED-GUISE TECHNIQUE IN MANCHESTER: BREAKDOWN OF THE GUISES;106
9.3;5.3 MATCHED-GUISE TECHNIQUE IN MANCHESTER: RESULTS BY GENDER OF INFORMANTS;127
9.4;5.4 MATCHED-GUISE TECHNIQUE IN MANCHESTER: RESULTS BY AGE OF INFORMANTS;132
9.5;5.5 MATCHED-GUISE TECHNIQUE IN MANCHESTER: RESULTS BY ORIGIN OF INFORMANTS;137
9.6;5.6 SUMMARY;154
10;6 VIENNA FIELDWORK: RESULTS;156
10.1;6.1 MATCHED-GUISE TECHNIQUE IN VIENNA: OVERALL RESULTS;157
10.2;6.2 MATCHED-GUISE TECHNIQUE IN VIENNA: BREAKDOWN OF THE GUISES;161
10.3;6.3 MATCHED-GUISE TECHNIQUE IN VIENNA: RESULTS BY GENDER OF INFORMANTS;187
10.4;6.4 MATCHED-GUISE TECHNIQUE IN VIENNA: RESULTS BY AGE OF INFORMANTS;192
10.5;6.5 MATCHED-GUISE TECHNIQUE IN VIENNA: RESULTS BY ORIGIN OF INFORMANTS;196
10.6;6.6 SUMMARY;211
11;7 COMPARISON OF RESULTS BETWEEN MANCHESTERAND VIENNA;214
11.1;7.1 OVERALL RESULTS OF MATCHED-GUISE TECHNIQUE FOR MANCHESTER AND VIENNA;214
11.2;7.2 OVERALL RESULTS OF THE MATCHED-GUISE TECHNIQUE FOR MANCHESTER AND VIENNA: GENDER;219
11.3;7.4 DISCUSSION AND REVIEW OF THE METHODOLOGY;220
12;8 CONCLUSION;224
13;BIBLIOGRAPHY;232
14;APPENDIX;240

Über Autor(innen)

Bellamy, John
John Bellamy worked at both the University of Vienna and the University of Manchester before completing a PhD in sociolinguistics. Having taught language and linguistics at the University of Sheffield, he is currently a lecturer in German at the University of Exeter.

His research interests are language attitudes, folk linguistics, language variation and perceptual dialectology.