Areal microvariation in German-speaking urban areas (Ruhr Area, Berlin, and Vienna)

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Abstract

This article focuses on spatial and social variation in the colloquial everyday speech of three German-speaking urban areas. The basic question is whether geographical variation (of the kind that is commonly observed in studies on dialect variation in large areas) is detectable in the everyday speech of the spatially much smaller, but denser urban areas as well. To this end, we use methods from quantitative dialectology to examine the patterns of variation in the Ruhr Area, Berlin, and Vienna. The respective analyses of the spatial patterns of 245 linguistic variables from a total number of 4,251 informants yield clear – but remarkably distinct – patterns of areal variation for each of these three urban areas. To account for those differences, social variables are factored in.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelUrban Matters
UntertitelCurrent approaches in variationist sociolinguistics
Redakteure/-innenArne Ziegler, Stefanie Edler, Georg Oberdorfer
ErscheinungsortAmsterdam, Philadelphia
Herausgeber (Verlag)John Benjamins
Seiten227-251
Seitenumfang25
ISBN (elektronisch)9789027258281
ISBN (Print)9789027258281, 9789027210135
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 15 Dez. 2021
VeranstaltungUrban Language Research. Variation - Contact - Perception - Graz, Österreich
Dauer: 31 Okt. 20183 Nov. 2018

Publikationsreihe

NameStudies in Language Variation
Herausgeber (Verlag)John Benjamins

Konferenz

KonferenzUrban Language Research. Variation - Contact - Perception
Land/GebietÖsterreich
OrtGraz
Zeitraum31/10/183/11/18

Schlagwörter

  • language variation
  • urban language
  • quantitative dialectology
  • sociolinguistics
  • Dialektometrie
  • colloquial German

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