The Reconstruction of Prestige Patterns in Language History

Sairio, Anni; Palander-Collin, Minna

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“…But can we consider the linguistic prestige sufficient to explain the massive transformations ongoing over the last generations? According to recent studies (Sairio and Palander-Collin 2012), the phenomena of language change or language accommodation to other people's communicative behaviour are often triggered by the dynamics of social prestige. The latter, as we know, is not a stable attribute and can be lost or acquired over time.…”

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The Jargon of Italian Travellers in Change: A New Social Scenario for Relexification

Tribulato

2022

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The present research paper explores the effects of relexification in the context of an in-group jargon variety. Specifically, it addresses the role of Romani as a supplier language in the process of lexical renewal that is ongoing in Dritto—the jargon of the Italian Travellers. Considered the most ancient descendant of the Italian historical jargon of the Roads, Dritto is a secret code which is still actively used within some socially marginalized service-provider communities, such as the families involved in the circus and the travelling show business. At the margins of the mainstream society, the families of Dritti entertainers share their living and economic spaces with the families of Italian Sinti, whose presence has been documented in Italy for centuries. As a consequence of this intense and prolonged cohabitation, Romani elements have always been documented in the corpora of Italian historical jargon. However, a considerably more significant contribution has recently been documented by researchers among the funfair workers in northern Italy. This work examines the driving factors behind this contact-induced shift by considering the changing socio-economic context faced by the travelling community in the last decades.

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The Jargon of Italian Travellers in Change: A New Social Scenario for Relexification

Tribulato

2022

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“…The front page and information about r/Italia Source: https://reddit.com/r/italia French, which was historically used in royal culture that developed with colonialism, and Italian, which was used during the Renaissance, make both of them languages of a high prestige internationally (Kahane in Sairio & Pallander-Collin, 2012). These two languages are often used in naming various products throughout the world, such as clothing, jewelry, property and many others to provide a prestigious value.…”

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Indonesian Language Minority in the Virtual Space of Indonesian People Majority: Virtual Linguistic Landscape of r/Indonesia Subreddit

Fitriawati,

Datang

2023

LENSA

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Through the study of Virtual Linguistic Landscape (LLV), this descriptive qualitative research aims to explore the contestation of Indonesian language in a virtual multilingual space with Indonesian people as the majority, namely the r/Indonesia subreddit community, within a social media site dominated by English speakers, Reddit. Each of the top-down contents made by the community moderators and bottom-ups made by the community members is observed. The analysis consists of the identification of the language dominance as well as the informational and symbolic functions behind the use of the languages in both types of content to further elaborate the significance of the dynamic. The research found that although members of the community are mostly Indonesian, English dominates all top-down contents. This domination functions informationally as a form of language accommodation while symbolically signifying that positive attitude is more assigned to English than Indonesian language as a status symbol. However, both English and Indonesian language dominate various different bottom-up contents. While the use of both languages also functions informationally as a form of language accommodation, the symbolic functions are more significant. That is, English as a marker of competence within the space designed for niche discussions and Indonesian language as a form of closeness and solidarity among members. Additionally, the use of English in the semi-formal bottom-up content indicates an influence of language choice by the top-down contents.

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“…Invariably, the descriptions of 16 th -language managers (teachers and literary critics in particular) in Europe, for example, tended to equate the standard variety with correct speech, and consequently disparaged other dialects, which came to be associated with 'uneducated' and 'incorrect' usage. 5 Yet, the development of a standard language culture, according to Milroy (2007), has made language attitudes be dominated by a standard language ideology and purism in language history and historiography (see Milroy 2001aMilroy , 2007Milroy , 2012Riley 2012;or Langer and Nesse 2012), as well as in the reconstruction of prestige patterns (Sairio and Palander-Collin 2012), so that the history of any language is usually the history of its standard variety. The vernaculars were given a marginal treatment, if any, referring to "a form of language (usually speech) that is held to differ in significant ways from the socially approved prestige or standard language" and therefore not accepted "as the language for official transactions or intellectual endeavors" (Macaulay 2001: 420; see also Macaulay 1973Macaulay , 1997and _____________ 5 A clue to the awareness of a well-established standard, opposed to 'wrongful' habits, is found in the texts of playwrights.…”

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Canons in Media Language and Professional Voice

Campoy

Cutillas-Espinosa

2017

Comp.J. Eng. Stud.

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Abstract. Linguistic prescriptivism is an ideology and authority based practice that has traditionally vindicated the use of norms of language as social conventions on correctness, appropriateness, aesthetics and validity, also affecting media language. The aim of this paper is to explore the theoretical underpinnings of the Script Design model, which underlines the need to consider not only responsive and even initiative based performance, but also the script or use of a professional voice, as part of structural constrains, that conditions the individual linguistic behaviour in public occupations. The debate on responsive-initiative motivations in stylistic variation is a central issue of the traditional pendulum-oscillating dilemma in social theory about the relationship between structure and agency, i.e. between sociolinguistic limitations and creativity, and also between speaker intention and listener understanding. Despite their social or regional background, speakers modify their linguistic production in public depending on the market characteristics and the structural constrains. The spirit of the Script Model, therefore, alludes to the standing debate in both classical and contemporary sociological theory over the primacy of social structure or agency in shaping human behaviour and the meaning of human behaviour itself.

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The Reconstruction of Prestige Patterns in Language History

Cited by 11 publications

References 16 publications

The Jargon of Italian Travellers in Change: A New Social Scenario for Relexification

The Jargon of Italian Travellers in Change: A New Social Scenario for Relexification

Indonesian Language Minority in the Virtual Space of Indonesian People Majority: Virtual Linguistic Landscape of r/Indonesia Subreddit

Canons in Media Language and Professional Voice

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