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- Title
Attitudinal and sociostructural factors and their role in dialect change: Testing a model of subjective factors.
- Authors
Kammacher, Louise; Stæhr, Andreas; Jørgensen, J. Normann
- Abstract
The causation of language change is a problem with a high profile in sociolinguistics. This paper presents two contrasting models of language change: one that is based on sociopsychological factors (Kristiansen & Jørgensen, 2005) and one that rejects them (the Napoleon Principle, Brink & Lund, 1979). In a longitudinal study of individuals' changing pronunciation of the Danish aj-diphthong over 20 years, we test predictions following from the sociopsychologically oriented model. By the mid-1980s, female speakers used more aj-pronunciations that are associated with high socioeconomic status than did male speakers. However, in guise tests, females revealed a more positive attitude toward speech associated with low socioeconomic status. Our prediction that female speakers would change their speech patterns to include more aj-pronunciations associated with low socioeconomic status is supported by an analysis of the same female speakers' pronunciations as recorded in the mid-2000s.
- Subjects
LINGUISTIC change; DIALECTIC; SOCIAL status; SOCIAL structure; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; ORATORS; LONGITUDINAL method; ENGLISH language pronunciation
- Publication
Language Variation & Change, 2011, Vol 23, Issue 1, p87
- ISSN
0954-3945
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0954394511000019