Lifespan “Changes from Above” in the Standardization of Japanese Regional Dialects: Levels of Grammar, Lexical Properties and Community Characteristics

IF 1.4 2区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language Variation and Change Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.1017/S0954394521000211

Shoji Takano

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Abstract This paper examines sociolinguistic properties of lifespan changes in language use from a non-Western perspective. Based on real-time studies in a change from above context (standardization) and panel surveys of prosody, the paper demonstrates that the stability of individuals’ language use over time varies along the following interwoven factors: (1) levels of grammar; (2) lexical properties; (3) progressive stages of a community in transition; and (4) locally constructed social identities. While segmental phonology and morphosyntax remain intact, lexical accents and vocabulary items tend to change in close linkage to sociolinguistic properties of individual words. Such changes are also motivated by the coexistence of an incoming standard, revitalized traditional dialect, and newly emerging “diaglossic” in-between variants in a community that is shifting to bidialectalism. Lifespan changes could also be community-specific, varying even within a single dialect region between two communities across which the stages of standardization and members’ locally constructed social identities differ.

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日语区域方言规范化中的“上变”：语法层次、词汇性质和共同体特征

摘要本文从非西方视角考察了语言使用寿命变化的社会语言学特性。基于对上述语境变化的实时研究（标准化）和韵律的小组调查，本文表明，随着时间的推移，个人语言使用的稳定性随着以下交织因素而变化：（1）语法水平；（2）词汇特性；（3）转型中社区的进步阶段；以及（4）本地构建的社会身份。虽然节段音韵学和形态句法保持不变，但词汇重音和词汇项目往往会随着单个单词的社会语言学特性而发生变化。这种变化的动机还在于，在一个正在向双向方言主义转变的社区中，新标准、振兴的传统方言和新出现的变体之间的“诊断性”共存。寿命的变化也可能是特定于社区的，甚至在两个社区之间的一个方言区域内也是不同的，标准化阶段和成员在当地构建的社会身份不同。

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期刊介绍： Language Variation and Change is the only journal dedicated exclusively to the study of linguistic variation and the capacity to deal with systematic and inherent variation in synchronic and diachronic linguistics. Sociolinguistics involves analysing the interaction of language, culture and society; the more specific study of variation is concerned with the impact of this interaction on the structures and processes of traditional linguistics. Language Variation and Change concentrates on the details of linguistic structure in actual speech production and processing (or writing), including contemporary or historical sources.