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	Date: 21-Mar-2009
	From: Sudarat Hatfield < lingathens at yahoo.com >
	Subject: Lexical Variation of Chiangmai Dialect in Chiangmai Province in Thailand
	 

		
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	Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:36:34
	From: Sudarat Hatfield [lingathens at yahoo.com]
	Subject: Lexical Variation of Chiangmai Dialect in Chiangmai Province in Thailand

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	Institution: University of Georgia 
	Program: Linguistics Program 
	Dissertation Status: Completed 
	Degree Date: 2005 

	Author: Sudarat Hatfield

	Dissertation Title: Lexical Variation of Chiangmai Dialect in Chiangmai
	Province in Thailand 

	Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
	                     Sociolinguistics

	Subject Language(s): Thai, Northern (nod)


	Dissertation Director(s):
	William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.
	Marlyse Baptista
	Don R. McCreary

	Dissertation Abstract:

	This research is a sociolinguistic study to find out whether there is
	lexical variation in the Chiangmai dialect in Chiangmai province in
	Thailand. It documents the differences of lexical use among the Chiangmai
	people, considers whether social factors such as age, education, sex, and
	urban/rural residence cause the differences. This project includes
	thirty-six speakers spread across twenty-two districts (Amphurs) in
	Chiangmai province. For each speaker, responses to two hundred and
	eighty-nine different questions, or linguistic variables, are tabulated.
	The results are analyzed separately in order to reveal the patterns of
	variation by the variables of age, education, sex, and region. The
	principal method is a questionnaire, which covers nine topics drawn from
	daily life. Instead of using fixed questions aimed to elicit short
	responses, the questionnaire was used as a guide for conversation. Tape
	recordings of informal conversation were also made. Questionnaire responses
	are transliterated in English Roman script to represent Chiangmai words
	exactly as the Chiangmai people pronounce them. It was concluded that age
	and education are two social factors that cause lexical variation among the
	Chiangmai people. Sex is only a small factor in lexical variation. Region
	is another social factor which causes lexical variation in the Chiangmai
	dialect. 




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