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13 - Multiethnolect and Dialect in and across Communities

from Part III - Meaning and Linguistic Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2021

By
Pia Quist
Edited by
Lauren Hall-Lew ,
Emma Moore  and
Robert J. Podesva
Lauren Hall-Lew
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
Emma Moore
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
Robert J. Podesva
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Summary

The chapter extends a third-wave perspective to the sociolinguistic study of multiethnolects. It presents an ethnographic study of variation in an ethnically diverse social housing neighborhood in Denmark. The chapter reports on and discusses analyses of variation in the use of multiethnolect features and the regional dialect (called Funen) with a particular focus on the supra-segmental features ‘multiethnolect staccato’ and ‘Funen intonation’, and the segmental variables (t) and (et). It is shown that multiethnolect features become locally meaningful in contrast to not only standard language, but also the regional dialect. The notion of ‘multiethnolect’ is discussed in a third-wave perspective, and it is argued that we need to look at relations between people, groups, and places, and between varieties and variables.

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Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation
Theorizing the Third Wave
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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