Child-to-parent address change in Polish

Kiełkiewicz‐Janowiak, Agnieszka

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“…Direct speech in fiction is often designed to highlight the very expressions of social categories in which we are interested and such expressions may represent an important literary tool to give a narrative a sense of reality and immediacy. We can be thus confident that there is likely to be variation to be found (Culpeper & Kytö, 2010:81, 307; Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak, 1999:59). Furthermore, as direct speech in fiction purports to be an attempt to represent spoken language, it is likely to represent a register closer to that of spoken language than that found in prototypically written genres, such as religious prose or legal texts.…”

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“…Using data from fiction texts obviously entails its own particular problems. There is still likely to be interaction among the varieties used by the character, the author, and the scribe(s), in part as a result of intentional artistic expression (Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak, 1999:58); more fundamentally, the language examined is not actually that of the characters in question but a fictional representation of it created by the author. Nevertheless, such data may also have some advantages.…”

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Gender and language change in Old Norse sentential negatives

Blaxter

2015

Lang Var Change

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One consistent finding across sociolinguistic studies is the tendency for female speakers to lead in ongoing change. Different explanations have been proposed for this and a key method of testing these explanations is to identify whether the pattern occurs in the languages of a wider range of societies than have been studied thus far. Historical societies are relatively understudied in this regard, but undertaking variationist research into gender in historical varieties presents many challenges. One way to overcome these is to examine variation internal to fiction data. This paper presents an analysis of the effect of gender on the adverb selected for sentential negation in Old Norse prose fiction. It finds that female characters lead consistently in this change over time. In doing so, it demonstrates the feasibility of using fiction data when examining the effect of gender in historical varieties such as Old Norse.

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Gender and language change in Old Norse sentential negatives

Blaxter

2015

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“…The importance of such distinction varies significantly in different cultures (and languages), the example being relative lack of polite–non-polite distinction in English language and more complicated systems present in some Slavic languages (i.e. Polish; Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak, 1992).…”

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The researcher as ‘older sister’, ‘younger sister’ and ‘niece’: playing the roles defined by the Vietnamese pronominal reference system

Szymańska-Matusiewicz

2012

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The article considers various dimensions of researcher-informant relationships arising while leading research in Vietnam, which inevitably influence the fieldwork done among the Vietnamese. The specificity of the relationships between the anthropologist and the researched is caused by one of the most characteristic features of Vietnamese language -the complicated system of terms of address and reference, based on such factors as sex, age and social position of the interlocutors. Due to the relational nature of Vietnamese terms of address, speakers entering into interaction are forced to define their own role and its relation to the role of the interlocutor. Adopting the interaction strategy imposed by the features of Vietnamese language brings twofold methodological implications. On one hand, the anthropologist experiences serious limitations of her ability to control the research situation, while on the other hand, she gains the opportunity to approximate the experience of being in a particular role: that of a woman subordinated to a man, a 'niece' subordinated to an elderly aunt or an 'older sister' whose status is higher than a younger man's.

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Child-to-parent address change in Polish

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Gender and language change in Old Norse sentential negatives

Gender and language change in Old Norse sentential negatives

The researcher as ‘older sister’, ‘younger sister’ and ‘niece’: playing the roles defined by the Vietnamese pronominal reference system

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