Investigating indexicality of regional morphological variation and change

Torben Juel Jensen; Marie Maegaard; Nicolai Pharao

Investigating indexicality of regional morphological variation and change

Torben Juel Jensen, Marie Maegaard, Nicolai Pharao

Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

Abstract

This chapter reports on an indexicality study of standard and regional forms of the past participle of strong verbs in western Denmark (Jutland). The last decades have seen a strong standardisation process with respect to language use, and we test the hypothesis that this is driven by the social meanings associated with this morphological variation. We conducted an online matched guise experiment with controlled variation of the participle suffix using recordings with speakers from Eastern Jutland. 262 respondents evaluated the speakers on scales related to personality traits, social background and standardness. The results show that the most regional variant leads to a lower score in perceived standardness but, for younger respondents, a higher score in how “nice” the speaker seems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Morphologische und syntaktische Variation in den deutschen Regionalsprachen : Impulse für die Erforschung der sprachlichen Vertikale
Editors	Hanna Fischer, Stefan Rabanus
Place of Publication	Hildesheim/Zürich/New York
Publisher	Georg Olms Verlag
Publication date	2023
Pages	241-272
ISBN (Print)	978-3-487-16336-9
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-487-42342-5
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	Veronese Workshop on Morphological and Syntactic Variation along the Dialect-Standard Axis - Università di Verona (via Zoom), Verona, Italy Duration: 9 Apr 2021 → 9 Apr 2021 Conference number: 2021

Workshop

Workshop	Veronese Workshop on Morphological and Syntactic Variation along the Dialect-Standard Axis
Number	2021
Location	Università di Verona (via Zoom)
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Verona
Period	09/04/2021 → 09/04/2021

Series	Germanistische Linguistik
Volume	258-259
ISSN	0072-1492

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities
Indexicality
language variation and change
Danish
Morphology
Language attitudes
Social meaning
standardisation
regional variation

Standardisering og morfologisk variation
Torben Juel Jensen (Speaker), Marie Maegaard (Other) & Nicolai Pharao (Other)
9 Jun 2022
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution
Investigating indexicality and regional morphological change
Torben Juel Jensen (Invited speaker), Marie Maegaard (Invited speaker) & Nicolai Pharao (Invited speaker)
9 Apr 2021
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

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Investigating indexicality of regional morphological variation and change. / Jensen, Torben Juel ; Maegaard, Marie ; Pharao, Nicolai.

Morphologische und syntaktische Variation in den deutschen Regionalsprachen: Impulse für die Erforschung der sprachlichen Vertikale. ed. / Hanna Fischer; Stefan Rabanus. Hildesheim/Zürich/New York : Georg Olms Verlag, 2023. p. 241-272 (Germanistische Linguistik, Vol. 258-259).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

Jensen, TJ , Maegaard, M & Pharao, N 2023, Investigating indexicality of regional morphological variation and change. in H Fischer & S Rabanus (eds), Morphologische und syntaktische Variation in den deutschen Regionalsprachen: Impulse für die Erforschung der sprachlichen Vertikale. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim/Zürich/New York, Germanistische Linguistik, vol. 258-259, pp. 241-272, Veronese Workshop on Morphological and Syntactic Variation along the Dialect-Standard Axis, Verona, Italy, 09/04/2021.

Jensen TJ , Maegaard M , Pharao N. Investigating indexicality of regional morphological variation and change. In Fischer H, Rabanus S, editors, Morphologische und syntaktische Variation in den deutschen Regionalsprachen: Impulse für die Erforschung der sprachlichen Vertikale. Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: Georg Olms Verlag. 2023. p. 241-272. (Germanistische Linguistik, Vol. 258-259).

Jensen, Torben Juel ; Maegaard, Marie ; Pharao, Nicolai. / Investigating indexicality of regional morphological variation and change. Morphologische und syntaktische Variation in den deutschen Regionalsprachen: Impulse für die Erforschung der sprachlichen Vertikale. editor / Hanna Fischer ; Stefan Rabanus. Hildesheim/Zürich/New York : Georg Olms Verlag, 2023. pp. 241-272 (Germanistische Linguistik, Vol. 258-259).

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Standardisering og morfologisk variation

Investigating indexicality and regional morphological change

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