Beskrivelse
In this presentation I explore the way in which place is constructed in discourse by Danish dialect-speaking informants. I focus on the construction of place as part of the backgrounded setting, the “background orientation” in narratives (Chafe 1980, Johnstone 1990), and I discuss the role of backgrounded information in the construction of place and identity. I argue that the informants’ use of seemingly inconspicuous, backgrounded markers of spatial language (in this case directional adverbs) play a significant role in the informants’ continuous construction of identity, conceptualizing their local home-base as either ‘center’ or ‘periphery’ (Hovmark 2012). Data stem from interviews with dialect-speaking informants in a small Danish, rural community; both quantitative and qualitative methods were applied.| Periode | 23 aug. 2012 |
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| Begivenhedstitel | Sociolinguistics Symposium 19 |
| Begivenhedstype | Konference |
| Placering | Berlin, TysklandVis på kort |
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Publikation
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Centre and/or periphery? On the cognitive and social construal of identity in a local community
Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › peer review
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Backgrounded but not peripheral: On the use of Danish directional adverbs as contextualization cues
Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › peer review