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Programme: accepted abstracts

Abstract ID: 1377

Part of Session 181: Folk linguistics and society (Other abstracts in this session)

Perceptual Dialectology – Speech samples and the concept of salience

Authors: Palliwoda, Nicole; Schröder, Saskia
Submitted by: Palliwoda, Nicole (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany)

The field of perceptual dialectology and folk linguistics, pioneered in the 1980s by scholars such as  Dennis Preston, has recently received significant attention in German Linguistics (cf. Anders et al. 2010).
In departing from more mainstream sociolinguistics, this subdiscipline focuses aims to investigate subjective data, i.e. in addressing the question as to what speakers think and feel about their and other linguistic varieties.  This includes views on the pleasantness rating of such varieties and individual features, and the subjective distance between standard and non-standard varieties. A project at the University of Kiel, funded by the German national science foundation (DFG), aims to  offer new insights to this field, by both collecting a large body of data from across the German-speaking areas (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Northern Italy, Eastern Belgium), and by advancing the theoretical debates on the basis of its empirical findings (cf. Hundt 2010).

In our talk we will present initial findings from the corpus-building and data-selection part of the project. In particular we will present, how speech samples can give a hint concerning the correlations between metalinguistic data and the intentional reactions of linguistic laymen. In our project we want to examine this by using a game containing certain speech samples our informants have to sort to given regions.

Literature
ANDERS, CHRISTINA A. / HUNDT, MARKUS / LASCH, ALEXANDER (Hgg.): Perceptual Dialectology“ – Neue Wege der Dialektologie. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.
HUNDT, MARKUS (2010): Bericht über die Pilotstudie „Laienlinguistische Konzeptionen deutscher Dialekte“. In: ANDERS, et al. 179-219.