32.1020, Books: Language Contact in a Mining Community: Pecht

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:20:17
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Language Contact in a Mining Community: Pecht

 


Title: Language Contact in a Mining Community 
Subtitle: A Study of Variation in Personal Pronouns and Progressive Aspect in Cité
Duits 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/language-contact-in-a-mining-community 


Author: Nantke Pecht

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933677 Pages: 391 Price: Europe EURO 39


Abstract:

Cité Duits (lit. ‘mining district German’) emerged as a Belgian
Dutch-Maaslands-German contact variety among the sons of immigrant miners in
the coalmining district of Belgian Eisden in the 1930s. Following a
sociolinguistic and grammatical framework, this dissertation examines the
linguistic character of Cité Duits with a focus on personal pronouns and
progressive aspect. It studies the underlying language contact dynamics and
explores the emergence and social functions of Cité Duits. While the
linguistic analysis is based on an audio corpus of spontaneous-like group
interactions, Pechtcombined methods of data collection from sociolinguistics
and linguistic anthropology.

The results show that Cité Duits emerged in a setting of multilingualism where
speakers already shared a common language, and therefore it served to mark an
in-group identity but not to ensure communication. The linguistic analysis
reveals that Cité Duits cannot be easily characterized as a variety of German,
or Dutch. Rather, there is much evidence toward an amalgamation of features
due to intensive language contact between Belgian Dutch, the Limburgish
dialect Maaslands and varieties of German. If the lexicon resembles colloquial
German, boundaries between the three varieties are generally blurred.

Language Contact in a Mining Community may be of relevance to researchers
interested in the contact processes between closely related varieties,
language mixing and fusion, variability and change in spoken language, and
more broadly, dialectology and language related to migration and mobility.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): German (deu)


Written In: English  (eng)

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