Interactions in Grammatical Systems: North-South Dialect Variation in England

语法系统中的相互作用:英格兰南北方言的变化

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    AH/V011073/1
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 25.42万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    英国
  • 项目类别:
    Fellowship
  • 财政年份:
    2021
  • 资助国家:
    英国
  • 起止时间:
    2021 至 无数据
  • 项目状态:
    已结题

项目摘要

The grammar of English has been characterised as less of a regional marker than accent. Nevertheless, even the most widespread grammatical features found in varieties of English around the world exhibit regional variation. For example, sociolinguists have identified certain grammatical phenomena that are reported to have North-South patterning within England in terms of their frequency and/or the linguistic factors that affect their use. These include negative concord (e.g. 'I didn't see nobody' meaning "I didn't see anybody") and 'ain't' (e.g. 'I ain't going') which are reportedly more commonly used in the south of England rather than further north. However, such features have typically been analysed in isolation, independently of one another. We do not know the degree to which these North-South patterns in the grammar of English dialects are the result of, or independent of, interactions between grammatical features themselves. For example, is there an interaction between the use of negative concord and the use of 'ain't', since they can co-occur in some contexts? Does this reflect a structural relationship between these phenomena within the linguistic systems of regional dialects? This fellowship project concerns both the regional distribution of grammatical forms and how phenomena interact structurally within dialect systems, focusing on negation, subject-verb agreement and the auxiliary system. The project combines methods that have traditionally been used in the fields of syntax and sociolinguistics respectively: (1) an online questionnaire, open to participants across England, which asks people how often they would hear particular sentence types in their local area; (2) sociolinguistic interviews with pairs of speakers in four English cities chosen for their North-South distribution, similar population sizes and distinctive dialects: Newcastle upon Tyne, Leeds, Nottingham and Southampton. The methodology grants insights into both how people perceive the grammatical variation and their actual use of grammatical features in speech. Quantitative analysis and geographical mapping of the data will be undertaken to establish how frequently different grammatical constructions are used across regions of England, whether the dialects represented share the same underlying system of linguistic factors that influence their use and interactions, and whether there is evidence of language change.The fellowship will allow the PI to develop their research capabilities in the integration of syntax and sociolinguistics for the analysis of grammatical variation. The insights gained into grammatical interactions and their geographical patterning will enhance our understanding of the underlying structure of English dialects, which has benefits for researchers working in sociolinguistics, language variation and change, dialectology and syntax. Research findings will be disseminated to scholars in these areas through publications and conferences. As dialect variation aligns with many components of the A-Level English Language curriculum, the project presents opportunities to engage with A-Level English Language teachers who will be invited to participate in the questionnaire stage of the research including the pilot testing process. The project will provide Continuing Professional Development opportunities for the teachers including a new case study on the York English Language Toolkit website and a webinar presenting the research findings. These pathways to impact will help increase the teachers' subject knowledge of grammatical variation/change and survey methodology that they can apply to their own teaching. The research will also help to raise public awareness of language diversity and combat negative stereotypes of non-standard language use, via a public lecture and a case study incorporated into a massive open online course in sociolinguistics which reaches a broad international audience.
英语的语法一直被描述为重音,而不是地区性标记。然而,即使在世界各地的各种英语中发现的最普遍的语法特征也表现出地区性的差异。例如,社会语言学家已经发现了某些语法现象,据报道,这些语法现象在英格兰境内具有南北模式,其使用频率和/或影响其使用的语言因素。其中包括负向和谐(例如‘我没有看到任何人’,意思是‘我没有看到任何人’)和‘没有’。‘我不去’),据报道更多的是在英格兰南部使用,而不是更北的地方。然而,这些特征通常是孤立地分析的,彼此独立。我们不知道英语方言语法中的这些南北模式在多大程度上是语法特征本身相互作用的结果,或者独立于它们之间的相互作用。例如,在某些语境中,否定协和和‘ain’t‘的使用之间是否存在互动关系?这是否反映了区域方言语言系统中这些现象之间的结构关系?这项研究既涉及语法形式的区域分布,也涉及方言系统中的现象如何在结构上相互作用,重点是否定、主动一致和助词系统。该项目结合了传统上分别在句法和社会语言学领域使用的方法:(1)向英格兰各地的参与者开放的在线问卷,询问人们在他们所在的地区听到特定句子类型的频率;(2)对四个英语城市的一对说话者进行社会语言学采访,这些城市是根据南北分布、相似的人口规模和独特的方言选择的:纽卡斯尔、泰恩、利兹、诺丁汉和南安普顿。这一方法论使人们能够深入了解人们如何感知语法变异以及他们在言语中对语法特征的实际使用。研究人员将对数据进行量化分析和绘制地理地图,以确定英格兰不同地区使用不同语法结构的频率,所代表的方言是否具有影响其使用和相互作用的相同语言因素的潜在系统,以及是否有证据表明语言发生了变化。该奖学金将使PI能够发展他们在句法和社会语言学相结合的研究能力,以分析语法变异。对语法互动及其地理模式的洞察将加深我们对英语方言潜在结构的理解,这对从事社会语言学、语言变异和变化、方言学和句法研究的研究者有好处。研究成果将通过出版物和会议向这些领域的学者传播。由于方言变化与A-Level英语语言课程的许多组成部分相一致,该项目提供了与A-Level英语语言教师接触的机会,他们将被邀请参与研究的问卷阶段,包括试点测试过程。该项目将为教师提供持续专业发展机会,包括在约克英语语言工具包网站上进行新的案例研究,并举办一次介绍研究结果的网络研讨会。这些影响的途径将有助于增加教师对语法变异/变化的学科知识,以及他们可以应用于自己的教学的调查方法。这项研究还将有助于提高公众对语言多样性的认识,打击对非标准语言使用的负面刻板印象,方法是将一场公开讲座和一项案例研究纳入一门面向广泛国际受众的大型社会语言学在线公开课。

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Claire Childs其他文献

Integrating syntactic theory and variationist analysis : The structure of negative indefinites in regional dialects of British English
句法理论与变异分析的结合:英式英语地方方言中否定不定词的结构
  • DOI:
  • 发表时间:
    2017
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    0
  • 作者:
    Claire Childs
  • 通讯作者:
    Claire Childs
Transatlantic perspectives on variation in negative expressions
跨大西洋对负面表达变化的看法
  • DOI:
    10.1017/s1360674318000199
  • 发表时间:
    2018
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    1
  • 作者:
    Claire Childs;Christopher Harvey;K. Corrigan;Sali A. Tagliamonte
  • 通讯作者:
    Sali A. Tagliamonte
Mechanisms of Grammaticalization in the Variation of Negative Question Tags
否定句标签变化的语法化机制
  • DOI:
    10.1177/00754242211044837
  • 发表时间:
    2021
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    0.8
  • 作者:
    Claire Childs
  • 通讯作者:
    Claire Childs
Interviewer effects on the phonetic reduction of negative tags, innit?
面试官对负面标签语音减少的影响,不是吗?
  • DOI:
    10.1016/j.pragma.2018.12.020
  • 发表时间:
    2019
  • 期刊:
  • 影响因子:
    1.6
  • 作者:
    Claire Childs
  • 通讯作者:
    Claire Childs

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