Language Standardization and Language Change: The Dynamics of Cape DutchLanguage Standardization and Language Change describes the formation of an early standard norm at the Cape around 1900. The processes of variant reduction and sociolinguistic focusing which accompanied the early standardization history of Afrikaans (or 'Cape Dutch' as it was then called) are analysed within the broad methodological framework of corpus linguistics and variation analysis. Multivariate statistical techniques (cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling and PCA) are used to model the emergence of linguistic uniformity in the Cape Dutch speech community. The book also examines language contact and creolization in the early settlement, the role of Afrikaner nationalism in shaping language attitudes and linguistic practices, and the influence of English. As a case study in historical sociolinguistics the book calls into question the traditional view of the emergence of an Afrikaans standard norm, and advocates a strongly sociolinguistic, speaker-orientated approach to language history in general, and standardization studies in particular. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 15 |
CHAPTER 2 | 45 |
CHAPTER 3 | 77 |
An introduction | 105 |
CHAPTER 6 | 124 |
CHAPTER 5 | 135 |
Morpholexical and syntactic variation | 179 |
105 | 193 |
CHAPTER 7 | 221 |
CHAPTER 8 | 261 |
CHAPTER 9 | 276 |
Language standardization and language change | 297 |
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355 | |
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Language Standardization and Language Change: The dynamics of Cape Dutch Ana Deumert Limited preview - 2004 |
Language Standardization and Language Change: The Dynamics of Cape Dutch Ana Deumert No preview available - 2004 |
Common terms and phrases
ablaut acrolectal adjective Afrikaans forms Apocope basilectal Besten Brümmer C. P. Hoogenhout Cape Dutch Correspondence Cape Dutch Vernacular Cape Town Chapter cluster analysis cluster II code-switching colonial component Corpus of Cape Creole Creole Languages cultural described dialect diglossia Donaldson early English example F. S. Malan Figure frequency gaan gender German historical hulle individuals infinitive inflectional John Benjamins Katie Van Huyssteen Khoe language change language contact letters lexical linguistic loss marker meisje mesolectal metropolitan Dutch modern Afrikaans morphosyntactic multidimensional scaling negation neuter niet nineteenth century non-standard norms noun Paarl past participle patterns person plural phonological Pidgin Ponelis present tense preterite pronoun Raidt relative Roberge SAL-MSB Scholtz slaves social sociolinguistic South African speakers speech community spoken standard language statistically structure syntactic t-apocope Taal Table texts third person singular tion uninflected University Press variables variation varieties verbal verbs writers