Diffusion of Language Change: Accommodation to a Moving Target

Marie Maegaard; Torben Juel Jensen; Tore Kristiansen; J. Normann Jørgensen

doi:10.1111/josl.12002

Diffusion of Language Change: Accommodation to a Moving Target

Marie Maegaard, Torben Juel Jensen, Tore Kristiansen, J. Normann Jørgensen

20 Citationer (Scopus)

Abstract

Artiklen fokuserer på årsager til spredning af nye træk i et sprogsamfund, og på hvordan spredningen foregår. Et datasæt repræsenterer sprogbrug, og her fokuseres på to forandringer som har fundet sted i dansk gennem de sidste 40 år, en grammatisk og en fonetisk. Det andet datasæt stammer fra en landsdækkende undersøgelse af underbevidste holdninger til forskellige typer af talesprog blandt unge på fem forskellige steder placeret i en linje der dækker Danmark fra øst til vest. Resultaterne viser at ændringerne i brug spredes centrifugalt fra København, i en grad så resten af landet følger trop også når København reverserer en igangværende ændring. De vurderinger der kommer til udtryk i holdningsundersøgelserne, understøtter teorien om at sprogforandring er motiveret af socialpsykologiske faktorer. Til slut argumenteres der for at det er værd at overveje mediernes mulige rolle i sprogforandringsprocesser.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Journal of Sociolinguistics
Vol/bind	17
Udgave nummer	1
Sider (fra-til)	3-36
Antal sider	34
ISSN	1360-6441
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12002
Status	Udgivet - feb. 2013

Emneord

Det Humanistiske Fakultet
Language change
real time
grammatical variation
phonetic
language attitudes
standardization

Adgang til dokumentet

10.1111/josl.12002

Changing changes: geographical distributions in real time in the LANCHART corpus
Torben Juel Jensen (Foredragsholder)
13 apr. 2010
Aktivitet: Tale eller præsentation - typer › Foredrag og mundtlige bidrag
Patterns of linguistic change in a late modern society - different variables; different patterns
Torben Juel Jensen (Foredragsholder)
2 sep. 2009
Aktivitet: Tale eller præsentation - typer › Foredrag og mundtlige bidrag
Accomodation to a moving target: The spatio-temporal dynamics of variation and change in a late modern socioty
Torben Juel Jensen (Foredragsholder)
14 aug. 2009
Aktivitet: Tale eller præsentation - typer › Foredrag og mundtlige bidrag
Central patterns of variation in a (typical?) late modern society
Torben Juel Jensen (Foredragsholder)
26 jun. 2009
Aktivitet: Tale eller præsentation - typer › Foredrag og mundtlige bidrag

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Diffusion of Language Change: Accommodation to a Moving Target

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Changing changes: geographical distributions in real time in the LANCHART corpus

Patterns of linguistic change in a late modern society - different variables; different patterns

Accomodation to a moving target: The spatio-temporal dynamics of variation and change in a late modern socioty

Central patterns of variation in a (typical?) late modern society

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