22.1888, Diss: Socioling/Corpus ling: Stokes: 'Castilian Transcodic Markers...'

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Subject: 22.1888, Diss: Socioling/Corpus ling:  Stokes: 'Castilian Transcodic Markers...'

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Date: 29-Apr-2011
From: Craig Stokes [cstokes at sunydutchess.edu]
Subject: Dissertation Abstract

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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:32:40
From: Craig Stokes [cstokes at sunydutchess.edu]
Subject: Dissertation Abstract

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Institution: State University of New York at Albany 
Program: Hispanic Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2011 

Author: Craig Stokes

Dissertation Title: Castilian Transcodic Markers in Internet Catalan: Analysis
of Generic, Regional and Linguistic Factors 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Dissertation Director(s):
Lotfi Sayahi

Dissertation Abstract:

This dissertation is a study of Castilian transcodic markers in the 
Catalan written on the Internet. Thirty Castilian transcodic markers 
representing five categories were run through the interface of the 
Corpus d'Ús del Català a la Web (CucWeb) to collect information in 
order to conduct both qualitative and quantitative analysis. The major 
research questions to be answered deal with the absolute and relative 
frequencies of these transcodic markers in the CucWeb and the factors 
behind the production of these non-standard forms. In addition to the 
frequency of the Castilian transcodic markers in the CucWeb, the initial 
study provides qualitative analysis of the thirty transcodic markers that 
highlight patterns of usage. The second investigation consists of ten 
case studies that utilize multivariate analysis to determine the generic, 
regional, and linguistic factors behind the usage of these selected 
transcodic markers. 
	The results of the study indicate that the overall relative frequency 
of these thirty transcodic markers is low, although the range is wide. 
Some transcodic markers do occur at a higher frequency than the 
prescriptive terms; however, the terms that demonstrate higher relative 
frequencies consistently show low absolute frequencies. Certain 
transcodic makers, nouns that show semantic extension, occur at 
higher relative frequencies when collocated with certain adjectives, 
indicating a degree of grammaticalization or lexical priming. In the case 
studies, genre was determined to be a statistically significant factor in 
the production of four transcodic markers. Region was found to be a 
significant factor in five case studies, although both region and genre 
were found to be factors in the production of only two transcodic 
markers. Three case studies determined only linguistic factors to be 
statistically significant. These results indicate that there are generic, 
regional, and linguistic factors behind the occurrence of Castilian 
transcodic markers in Internet Catalan, although not all of these factors 
are significant in every case. Individual analysis of specific transcodic 
markers shows evidence that Catalan is resisting Castilian influence in 
some cases, but adapting Castilian forms in others. 

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