Further report on the sociolinguistic survey of multilingual communities: survey of Cayo District, British Honduras

Page, Robert B.; Christie, Pauline; Jurdant, Baudouin; Weekes, Amber; Tabouret‐Keller, Andrée

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“…Some have suggested that a speaker's extent of contact with members of the group who speak the variety may influence the degree to which the speaker uses variants from that group's variety (Labov, 1972a(Labov, , 1972c(Labov, , 1973Reinstein & Hoffman, 1972;Silverman, 1971;Wolfram, 1972Wolfram, , 1973aWolfram, , 1973b. Others contend that feelings of identification with members of the target language group or that group's covert prestige may influence the degree to which a speaker uses features of that group's language (Hewitt, 1982;Hudson, 1980;Kazazis, cited in Labov, 1972c;Labov, 1972c;LaFerriere, 1979;LePage, Christie, Turdant, Weeks, & Tabouret-Keller, 1974;Nichols, 1981;Poplack, 1978;Trudgill, 1972).…”

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Standard English: The Only Target for Nonnative Speakers of English?

Goldstein¹

1987

TESOL Quarterly

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An implicit assumption of most research on the acquisition of English as a second language is that standard English is the only target for nonnative speakers of English. The study reported in this article demonstrates that black English served as a target for Hispanic boys acquiring English as a second language in the New York City metropolitan area. In addition, the study shows that extensive peer contact with blacks was a necessary but not sufficient condition for the acquisition of two features of black English, negative concord and distributive be, and that choice of blacks as a reference group played no role in the acquisition of these two features. However, since contact did not account for all the variation and subjects made comments indicating that they had affective responses to input, the study suggests that the concept of reference group should be revised rather than abandoned.White people, they talk different from black, and the teachers, they talk different, you know.

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Standard English: The Only Target for Nonnative Speakers of English?

Goldstein¹

1987

TESOL Quarterly

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“…Indeed, for a considerable period the creole continuum model was assumed to be the most appropriate framework within which to describe Caribbean creole varieties, and such notions as creolization, decreolization and recreolization were standard descriptive terms. There were also early studies that promoted alternative, more multidimentional approaches, notably Le Page et al (1974) in which a team of linguistic and social scientists produced a multidimentional analysis of the sociolinguistic affiliations of speakers in the Cayo district of Belize (then British Honduras). Other contemporary studies which proposed non-linear studies of the language choices of Caribbean speakers include Edwards (1983).…”

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English in Cyprus or Cyprus English: An empirical investigation of variety status. SarahBuschfeld. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2013, xvi + 246 pp.

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2014

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“…But this particular study again belongs to a far larger scheme, whose main project is the Sociolinguistic Survey of Multilingual Communities (British Honduras Survey, St. Lucia Survey) co-directed by Professor R.B. LePage from York University and myself (Tabouret-Keller and LePage, 1970;LePage, 1972;1974). In contrast with those large-scale surveys, we in Alsace are trying to understand in more detail who the actors of the change are and how it is taking place.…”

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INTRODUCTION. Regional Languages in France: Current Research in Rural Situations

Tabouret‐Keller¹

1981

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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The aim of this issue is to present results of research in progress on regional languages in France and, in doing so, to illustrate the regional language situation in France today. It is this last purpose that makes this issue one of the sociology of language, for any human situation is necessarily a social situation in a language-mediated world. We are born, grow up, work, give life to a new generation, and die within that world. The purpose of the sociology of language is, as I see it, to study and elucidate how social variation can affect the languages involved, i.e. how a language or languages undergo variations or transformations and how these can be linked with social transformations. The basic fact of our human roots within a language-mediated universe is not questioned by the sociology of language as far as it could be, for example, by a comparative study of social communicative behavior in animal and man. We stay within a universe where we cannot help existing as language beings.In this study of the regional language situation in France we are concerned with an evolution where one language, rightly or wrongly labeled 'regional language' -we come to that later on -is gradually or drastically replaced by another language, rightly or wrongly labeled 'national language'. The regional languages are many: Picard, Breton, Alsatian, in the northern part of France, Occitan, Gascon, Catalan, among others, in the southern part of France (see Figure 1); the national language is one: French. The changes that are described are, of course, taking place in an overall framework of continuous change affecting French itself -a language changes because it is used (Martinet, 1969) -, but this has not particularly been taken into account here, nor has the fact that the regional languages themselves did undergo changes and still do if only by their contact with French or the fact that French was and still is being influenced by the regional languages. However, it has not been my choice that these last points are neither studied nor mentioned here; it is rather to be taken as a symptom of a frame of mind where the regional language dealt with is taken as an entity, the wholeness of which is not to be questioned. If its situation changes it is because it is less and less spoken: the point of view is one of appreciating a quantity of usage. How many people still speak the regional language, how often and to whom? -questions that all lead back to the sociological setting of the language situation. Appreciating the quality of what is still spoken under the name of a particular regional language, e.g. Occitan or Gascon, does not seem to be a topic of research spontaneously mentioned when one is asking, as I did, for studies in the rural sociology of language. For this is what I mentioned when I first approached several research centers and colleagues to ask for contributions to the present issue. The rural sociology of language is far less developed than the urban sociology of language to which questions set by the findings of Fishm...

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Further report on the sociolinguistic survey of multilingual communities: survey of Cayo District, British Honduras

Cited by 17 publications

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Standard English: The Only Target for Nonnative Speakers of English?

Standard English: The Only Target for Nonnative Speakers of English?

English in Cyprus or Cyprus English: An empirical investigation of variety status. SarahBuschfeld. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2013, xvi + 246 pp.

INTRODUCTION. Regional Languages in France: Current Research in Rural Situations

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