Formal and functional variation in urban children’s language

Dines, Elizabeth; Henry, Patricia; Allender, Susan

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“…There has until recently been tacit agreement that it could equally well be extended beyond the level of syntax to account for variation at the discourse level. This assumption underlies current work on functional variation (Shuy et al 1977), semantic variation (D. Sankoff, Thibault & Berube 1978), variation in phrase structure (Heidelberger Forschungsprojekt 'Pidgin-Deutsch' 1978) and variation in patterns of discourse (Dines 1978). The question arises as to whether such an extension demands a modification of the model, in particular a reappraisal of the nature of the underlying form of a [ 1 ] An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Linguistic Society of Australia Congress (1977) and appeared in R. Zatorski and E. Pearce (eds), Working Papers in Linguistics (University of Melbourne 1977), 3:33-55.…”

Section: The Linguistic Variablementioning

confidence: 84%

“…This issue is not pursued in the present paper but is at the heart of a study in which I am at present engaged (Dines 1979). The outcome of the preceding exercise is that it is as yet pointless to undertake quantitative analysis, for the taxonomy of variants is demonstrably incomplete.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…(This issue has been increasingly discussed (e.g. Gazdar 1976;Lavandera 1978;Dines, Henry, & Allender 1979). )…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In a further experiment, Dines (1978) recorded the degree of antagonism aroused in middle-class and working-class mothers by several different aspects of non-standard language. Both middle and working-class mothers TABLE I. Occurrences of terminal tags in interviews of women from two socio-economic groups (Dines 1976J.…”

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Variation in discourse—“and stuff like that”

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The extension of variation analysis to the level of discourse involves refining the notion that variants are semantic equivalents. Discourse variables may be determined on the basis of common discourse function. In the absence of a semantic tie the isloation of a variable begins with the salience of a variant and proceeds via examinations of its distribution to postulating a variable and mapping the alternative variants. This procedure is illustracted by an analysis of a socially diagnostic discourse feature– the set-marking tag. Its higher frequency in working- class sppeech stimulates the search for alternative favoured forms. One hypothesis, derived from Bernstein's notion of codes, is that the tags mark an orientation to “particularistic” rather than “ universalistic” meanings. It follows that a favoured alternative to the tag may be realised as general reference. (Discourse variables; variation theory; codes and social dialects; Australian English.)

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Section: The Linguistic Variablementioning

confidence: 84%

Section: + Count 1mentioning

confidence: 93%

“…(This issue has been increasingly discussed (e.g. Gazdar 1976;Lavandera 1978;Dines, Henry, & Allender 1979). )…”

Section: The Linguistic Variablementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Saliencementioning

confidence: 99%

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