One foot in the grave? Dialect death, dialect contact, and dialect birth in England
One foot in the grave? Dialect death, dialect contact, and dialect birth in England
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一脚踩进坟墓？
DOI：
10.1515/ijsl.2009.019
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发表时间：
2009
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1
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D. Britain
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D. Britain
在此，我从社会语言学和变异学的研究中概述了最近在英国进行的方言消耗的一些证据。在这样做的过程中，通过强调英语方言中一些正在发生的变化的起源，我希望特别提出三个主张：首先，方言的死亡与方言接触有着密不可分的联系为了理解方言死亡如何改变了英格兰的方言景观，我们需要更普遍地理解接触的语言后果；其次，显然与其他语言群体不同的是，磨擦过程并没有导致向RP或标准英语的广泛转变。第三，我认为，虽然有些方言无疑正在经历消亡，但在扩展和迁移扩散的双重推动下，在地方、区域、区域间以及其他包括标准方言在内的方言之间的接触下，新的方言正在出现。虽然目前影响英国英语方言的发展并不一定是特别新的，但它们正在以前所未有的空间规模进行，这种规模是一些相当广泛的社会和经济发展的结果，这些发展加速了结构上截然不同的方言使用者之间的联系。
Abstract I survey here some of the recent evidence of dialect attrition from sociolinguistic and variationist studies carried out in England. In doing so, and by highlighting the origins of some of the ongoing changes in English dialects, I hope to make three claims in particular: firstly, that dialect death is inextricably linked to dialect contact — in order to understand how dialect death has changed the dialectological landscape of England, we need to appreciate the linguistic consequences of contact more generally; secondly, and apparently in contrast with some other speech communities, the attrition process has not led to a widespread shift toward RP or standard English. I argue, thirdly, that while some dialects are undoubtedly undergoing attrition, new varieties are emerging, driven by both expansion and relocation diffusion, and shaped by contact between local, regional, interregional, and other, including standard, varieties. Although the developments currently affecting English dialects in England are not necessarily particularly new, they are proceeding on an unprecedented spatial scale, a scale that has resulted from some rather wide-ranging social and economic developments that have accelerated contact between speakers of structurally distinct dialects.