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Investigating Variation - The Effects of Social Organization and Social Setting (Hardcover, New)
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Investigating Variation - The Effects of Social Organization and Social Setting (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
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Linguistic variation has most commonlu been studied in communities
that have the dominant social organization of our time: occupation
and ethnic diversity, socioeconomic stratification, and a
population size that precludes community-wide face-to-face
interaction. In such communities literacy introduces overarching,
extra-community linguistic norms, and linguistic variation
correlates with socioeconomic class. Investigating Variation
explores a different kind of social organization: small size,
enclavement, common occupation, absence of social stratification,
bilingualism with extremely weak extra-community norming for the
local minority language, which shows a very high level of
individual variation. Nancy C. Dorian's examination of the
fisherfolk Gaelic spoken in a Highland Scottish village offers a
number of explanations for delayed recognition of linguistic
variation unrelated to social class or other social sub-groups.
Reports of similar variation phenomena in locations with similar
social-setting and social-organization features (contemporary
minority-language pockets in Ireland, Russia, Norway, Canada, and
Cameroon) make it possible to recognize a particular set of factors
that contribute to the emergence and persistence of socially
neutral inter-speaker and intra speaker variation. The documented
existence of still other forms of social organization, rare now but
once more widespread, suggests that additional forms of linguistic
variation, as well as other facets of language use related to
social organization, remain unexamined, calling for attention
before the few communities that represent them disappear
altogether.
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