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Variation in space and society

The case of interviewers and transcribers in a corpus of spoken French (ESLO)
  • Céline Dugua , Marie Skrovec , Gabriel Bergounioux and Olivier Baude
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Abstract

Sociolinguistics and dialectology share the same interest in the spoken language and the same method: the use of surveys. They both collect their primary data and organise them into corpora, but they differ in the way their results are presented. Based on the Sociolinguistic Survey in Orléans (ESLO), this chapter explores two hitherto neglected factors that may impinge on survey and transcription methodologies: the characteristics of the interviewers and their relationship with the interviewees according to the type of situation; and the profiles of the transcribers and their relationship to the standard French. We conclude that both features constitute parameters of variation, to which the ESLO corpus provides access.

Abstract

Sociolinguistics and dialectology share the same interest in the spoken language and the same method: the use of surveys. They both collect their primary data and organise them into corpora, but they differ in the way their results are presented. Based on the Sociolinguistic Survey in Orléans (ESLO), this chapter explores two hitherto neglected factors that may impinge on survey and transcription methodologies: the characteristics of the interviewers and their relationship with the interviewees according to the type of situation; and the profiles of the transcribers and their relationship to the standard French. We conclude that both features constitute parameters of variation, to which the ESLO corpus provides access.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Data collection
  5. On the validity of crowdsourced data 10
  6. Variation in space and society 34
  7. Part II. Methodology
  8. The Phonologie du français contemporain project in Quebec 60
  9. “Going standard” on a blank page 84
  10. Sociogeographical differences in the pronunciation of Anglicisms in Spanish 106
  11. Part III. Case studies
  12. Historical corpora and linguistic geography of Spanish 134
  13. Dialectology as a matter of gradience 154
  14. Testing Twitter data on a morphosyntactic variable 176
  15. Part IV. Theory
  16. Sketching out a virtual framework for Romance geolinguistics 198
  17. Index 217
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.110.02dug

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Data collection
  5. On the validity of crowdsourced data 10
  6. Variation in space and society 34
  7. Part II. Methodology
  8. The Phonologie du français contemporain project in Quebec 60
  9. “Going standard” on a blank page 84
  10. Sociogeographical differences in the pronunciation of Anglicisms in Spanish 106
  11. Part III. Case studies
  12. Historical corpora and linguistic geography of Spanish 134
  13. Dialectology as a matter of gradience 154
  14. Testing Twitter data on a morphosyntactic variable 176
  15. Part IV. Theory
  16. Sketching out a virtual framework for Romance geolinguistics 198
  17. Index 217
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