Rural Dialect Speakers in an Urban Speech Community: The Role of Dialect Contact in Defining a Sociolinguistic Concept.

Kerswill, Paul

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ERIC Number: EJ468903

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Publication Date: 1993

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Rural Dialect Speakers in an Urban Speech Community: The Role of Dialect Contact in Defining a Sociolinguistic Concept.

Kerswill, Paul

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, v3 n1 p33-56 1993

The applicability of the notion of "speech community" in urban centers where considerable dialect mixing takes place is discussed. Labov's model is examined and four speech community criteria are emphasized: nativeness of speech community members, uniform patterns of linguistic variation, shared evaluation of features, and close relatedness of varieties at all linguistic levels. (49 references) (Author/LB)

Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classification, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns, Models, Regional Dialects, Sociolinguistics, Urban Areas

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Language: English

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