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Dialects Converging: Rural Speech in Urban Norway

Dialects Converging: Rural Speech in Urban Norway

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Studies in Language Contact

Linguistics

ISBN10: 0198248261
ISBN13: 9780198248262
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Jan 26 1995
Pages: 196
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
How and why do adults modify their language when they move to a new area? In this detailed study of rural dialect users who have moved to the Norwegian city of Bergen, Kerswill throws light on this widespread phenomenon. The book is concerned with the theory of language change through language and dialect contact, and with the theory and practice of sociolinguistics. While the approach is broadly quantitative, the author shows the importance of ethnographic and social-psychological explanations.

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