Dialects Converging: Rural Speech in Urban Norway

(Part of the Oxford Studies in Language Contact Series)

by Paul Kerswill

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How and why do adults modify their language when they move to a new area? In this detailed study of rural dialect users who have moved to the Norwegian city of Bergen, Kerswill throws light on this widespread phenomenon. The book is concerned with the theory of language change through language and dialect contact, and with the theory and practice of sociolinguistics. While the approach is broadly quantitative, the author shows the importance of ethnographic...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198248261

ISBN13:9780198248262

Release Date:January 1995

Publisher:Clarendon Press

Length:196 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Humanities Language Arts Linguistics Words, Language & Grammar

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Dialects Converging: Rural Speech in Urban Norway

(Part of the Oxford Studies in Language Contact Series)

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