Book contents
- Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation
- Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theoretical Foundations
- Part I Where Is (Social) Meaning?
- Part II The Structure of Social Meaning
- Part III Meaning and Linguistic Change
- 12 Emergence of Social Meaning in Sociolinguistic Change
- 13 Multiethnolect and Dialect in and across Communities
- 14 Changing Language, Changing Character Types
- 15 Social Meaning and the Temporal Dynamics of Sound Changes
- 16 The Role of the Body in Language Change
- 17 Afterword
- Index
- References
13 - Multiethnolect and Dialect in and across Communities
from Part III - Meaning and Linguistic Change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2021
- Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation
- Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Social Meaning and Linguistic Variation: Theoretical Foundations
- Part I Where Is (Social) Meaning?
- Part II The Structure of Social Meaning
- Part III Meaning and Linguistic Change
- 12 Emergence of Social Meaning in Sociolinguistic Change
- 13 Multiethnolect and Dialect in and across Communities
- 14 Changing Language, Changing Character Types
- 15 Social Meaning and the Temporal Dynamics of Sound Changes
- 16 The Role of the Body in Language Change
- 17 Afterword
- Index
- References
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 VariationTheorizing the Third Wave, pp. 292 - 314Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021