Date: 08-Jul-2009 From: Alexandra Schepelmann <a.schepelmannbraumueller.at> Subject: Dialect Use as Interaction Strategy: Soukup E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Dialect Use as Interaction Strategy
Subtitle: A sociolinguistic study of contextualization, speech perception, and
language
Series Title: Austrian Studies in English
Published: 2009
Publisher: Braumüller Wissenschaft und Schulbuch
http://www.braumueller.at
Author: Barbara Soukup
Paperback: ISBN: 9783700317029 Pages: 266 Price: Europe EURO 25.90
Abstract:
In the course of conversations held in a standard language, shifting into non-standard dialect can turn out to be a very powerful rhetorical tool. For the first time, this book brings the methodology of American interactional sociolinguistic discourse analysis, language attitude study, and variationist sociolinguistics to data drawn from Austrian TV discussions, in order to investigate and illuminate the mechanisms behind such decidedly strategic dialect use.
Disparaging an opponent, talking in irony, expressing contempt for an opposing position - all these are conversational moves for which discussion participants are found to harness Austrian dialect. That dialect use thus predominantly occurs in negative interactional contexts is only one of the intriguing results presented here. To go beyond this mere fact and trace its underlying processes, the study investigates the nature of social stereotypes associated with Austrian dialect as well as their perceptual links with non-standard features, applying a combination of methodologies that sets a precedent for future investigations of strategic language use within the growing field of sociolinguistics.
Series Editors: Manfred Markus, Herbert Schendl, Werner Wolf
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Sociolinguistics
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