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Publication details [#58708]

Cerruti, Massimo and Riccardo Regis. 2014. Standardization patterns and dialect/standard convergence: A northwestern Italian perspective. Language in Society 43 (1) : 83–111.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialectology | language change | sociolinguistics | standard1 vs. dialect2 | standardization

Language as a subject

Italian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Drawing from Auer's (2005, 2011) “dialect/standard constellations”, this study explores the dynamics of intra- and interlinguistic convergence as they are linked to the running standardization processes in Italian, Piedmontese, and Occitan in Piedmont. Some adaptations to Auer's diaglossia and endoglossic medial diglossia types are suggested to better fit the specific contexts.