33.3724, Books: Spoken Frisian: Stefan

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Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 17:29:40
From: Tessa Arneri [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Spoken Frisian: Stefan

 


Title: Spoken Frisian 
Subtitle: Language contact, variation and change 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/spoken-frisian 


Author: Nika Stefan

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460934117 Pages: 168 Price: Europe EURO 30


Abstract:

This thesis provides insight into the use of and variation in spoken West
Frisian against the backdrop of the Frisian standard language and language
contact with Dutch. Frisian is a minority language spoken in the Dutch
province of Fryslân. It is predominantly a spoken language characterized by
ample dialect variation. All Frisians are bilinguals and their language
proficiency is often higher in Dutch than in Frisian. Spoken Frisian is known
to be influenced by Dutch, but little is known about the actual linguistic
variability of Frisian as used in everyday-life.

The research reported in this book was conducted in the context of a larger
study in Fryslân - a sociological language survey - which this PhD project is
a part of. For the purpose of the two projects, an online questionnaire was
developed that has been completed by 3.700 participants, varying in age (≥18
years old) and living in different parts of Fryslân. The questionnaire itself
consisted of a sociological and a linguistic part. About 250 out of 3.000
Frisian-speaking participants who had completed the linguistic part of the
questionnaire, were subsequently invited for an in-depth interview.

The results confirm the wide-spread appearance of loanwords and loan
constructions in spoken Frisian and its difference with regard to the Frisian
standard, but they also show that language contact is a complex process,
involving multiple factors. Not only can the borrowability of Dutch words and
constructions strongly diverge, also their popularity and acceptance among the
speakers varies extensively. With language knowledge and awareness actually
exceeding the general assumptions, speakers of Frisian appear to make
deliberate choices and adjust their language use to different interlocutors
and situations.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Frisian, Northern (frr)


Written In: English  (eng)

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