Dialect Contact

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A32=Allison Shapp
A32=Areej Al-Hawamdeh
A32=Enam Al-Wer
A32=Jennifer Nycz
A32=Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy
A32=Karen Beaman
A32=Laura Torrano-Moreno
A32=Víctor Fernández-Mallat
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community dialect
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781647125011
  • Weight: 431g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Jan 2025
  • Publisher: Georgetown University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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New research expands the linguistic understanding of dialect contact in specific communities and individuals Dialect contact occurs whenever speakers of mutually intelligible language varieties interact. Many linguists are interested in the outcome of such contact—how it leads people and languages to vary and change, and what such patterns can reveal about language, mind, and society. Dialect contact can thus be approached as an individual-level or a community-level phenomenon; a cognitive process or a social one. In Dialect Contact, international contributors present studies touching on both perspectives, representing languages and varieties spanning five continents. The chapters shed light on the many factors influencing dialect change and highlight the importance of considering the contact dynamics that are specific to individual people and communities. This book will benefit sociolinguistics scholars and students interested in the outcomes of dialect contact, the implications of contact for understanding language change, and the various methods used to investigate contact effects in individuals and communities.
Víctor Fernández-Mallat is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. He is an editor of Linguistic Landscapes and Educational Spaces (2021) and has published articles in journals like the Journal of Pragmatics and Intercultural Pragmatics. Jennifer Nycz is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of Second Dialect Acquisition: Theory and Methods (2015).