Aspects of pluricentric German
- The contribution will focus on aspects of pluricentricity in spoken Standard German. After a brief overview over the historical and dialectal background of the linguistic diversity in the German speaking area, the regionally balanced speech-corpus "German today” is presented, which has been collected for the analysis of the (regional) variation of spoken Standard German. Aspects of pluricentric German will be discussed by means of both the distribution of certain phonetic variables and a short analysis of regional differences in the use of certain conversational constructions. It is argued that pluricentric structures are constituted by a set of linguistic features on different levels of description. Above all, the analysis tries to reveal traces of the impact of both traditional dialects and national or even subnational political units on the constitution of the standard varieties.
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| Author: | Ralf Knöbl |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-41313 |
| ISBN: | 978-972-697-201-3 |
| Parent Title (Portuguese): | Línguas Pluricêntricas: Variação Linguística e Dimensões Sociocognitivas / Pluricentric Languages: Linguistic Variation and Sociognitive Dimensions |
| Publisher: | Aletheia |
| Place of publication: | Braga |
| Editor: | Augusto Soares da Silva, Amadeu Torres, Miguel Gonçalves |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2011 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2015/09/14 |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
| Tag: | German; conversational constructions; national and subnational standard varieties; regional phonetic variation; spoken (colloquial) standard |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Plurizentrische Sprache; Sprachvariante; Standardsprache |
| First Page: | 427 |
| Last Page: | 439 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| BDSL-Classification: | Deutsche Mundarten |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Dialektologie / Sprachgeografie |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |