Dialektwandel und Einstellung : das Beispiel der Aarauer Stadtmundart

Dialect change and attitudes

  • Sociolinguistic research has shown that attitudes towards linguistic variants can distinguish different speech communities. The importance of attitudes for an explanation of linguistic change was examined and compared to traditional explanations by sociolinguistic and dialectologic variables. Therefore the dialect of Aarau was investigated, a small town situated between the two cities of Bern (80 km in the west) and Zürich (50 km in the east) in the German speaking part of Switzerland. Bern and Zürich both are centres of a larger dialect region, Aarau lies in the contact zone of these two dialects. Phonetic variables of the idiolect of 55 speakers were compared to historical data and related to their attitudes towards the neighbouring dialects. The findings so far show no significant correlation of attitudes and language change, but further research including morphology will refine the results. The inclusion of attitudes to explain linguistic change can complement the understanding of linguistic change, but it can not explain it.

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Author:Beat SiebenhaarORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1150730
Document Type:Article
Language:German
Date of Publication (online):2010/04/27
Year of first Publication:2002
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2010/04/27
GND Keyword:Dialektologie; Schweizerdeutsch; Soziolinguistik
Source:http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~siebenh/pdf/Siebenhaar_2002.pdf ; (in:) Jan Berns, Jaap van Marle: Present-day Dialectology: Problems and Findings. - Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter (Trends in Linguistics 137), 2002, S. 313–332
HeBIS-PPN:225034611
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Germanistik / GiNDok
Linguistik
Germanistik / GindokWeimar
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachgeschichte / History of language
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht