Vinderup in real time
A showcase of dialect levelling
This article is based on a panel and a trend study showing the real-time language changes in spoken Danish over 28 years. The local dialect rapidly loses ground to regional standard Danish, but with large differences between the intra- and the intergenerational changes and with increasing gender differences. Our findings point to women being in the lead of these language changes. To obtain a deeper insight into the linguistic changes we provide a qualitative family study of three generations which relates the use of dialect to the issues of gender, lifestyle and life history. In generation 1 and 2 gender has less bearing on linguistic usage than lifestyle and life history in signalling local affi liation, whereas dialect in generation 3 functions as a masculine subcultural identity marker. Dialect therefore no longer indicates local orientation or a locally bound lifestyle.
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Maegaard, Marie, Torben Juel Jensen, Tore Kristiansen & Jens Normann Jørgensen
2013.
Diffusion of language change: Accommodation to a moving target.
Journal of Sociolinguistics 17:1
► pp. 3 ff.
Jensen, Torben Juel & Marie Maegaard
2012.
Past participles of strong verbs in Jutland Danish: A real-time study of regionalization and standardization.
Nordic Journal of Linguistics 35:2
► pp. 169 ff.
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