Naslov
Variation in Croatian-Čakavian: the Construction of the Rural Speaker's Identity in the Urban Speech Community

Autori
Škevin, Ivana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, ostalo

Izvornik
ICLaVE 8, Conference on Language Variation in Europe. Book of abstracts / - Leipzig, 2015, 150-150

Skup
ICLaVE 8, Conference on Language Variation in Europe. Leipzig 27-29 May 2015

Mjesto i datum
Leipzig, Njemačka, 27.05.2015. - 29.05.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Croatian-Čakavian; Rural; Urban; Identity

Sažetak
Croatian language has three main groups of dialects: Kajkavian, Čakavian and Štokavian. The standard Croatian is based on the Štokavian. The Čakavian dialect, subject of this research, is spoken along the East Adriatic Coast, it has many local varieties that vary in accent, morpho-syntax or in lexicon. The paper attempts to individualize the linguistic and the extra-linguistic factors of language shift and change of Croatian-Čakavian varieties. The hypothesis is that speakers of less dominant varieties, i.e. of rural Croatian-Čakavian varieties, while socializing and communicating with speakers of urban varieties or of the Croatian standard variety, as a consequence of their language attitudes, tend to accommodate and converge linguistically. It means that, they consciously or subconsciously, opt for the substandard urban or standard Croatian (lexical or phonetic) variant, instead of the rural one, even in informal situations. Through a short-term accommodation they are constructing their own identity in discourse or at least the identity they would like to present to others and the identity of the group they want to be identified with. This, on the long run, may cause the rural and the urban variety language shift, and it may, over time, lead to dialect levelling and change. The research will be conducted among students of the University of Zadar and it will be based on a questionnaire consisting of a series of questions about their local identity recognition and about their language behaviour in certain formal or informal situations and domains. Since the dialect levelling in Croatian-Čakavian varieties manifests mostly in accent levelling and in lexical levelling concerning the reduction of intrasystemic, especially 'quantitative' lexical variation, the questionnaire will also contain lexical and phonetic aspects of a corpus specific to a certain rural variety and to Zadar urban variety.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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