Quotations across the generations: A multivariate analysis of speech and thought introducers across 5 decades of Tyneside speech
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Isabelle Buchstaller
Abstract
This paper reports on changes in the system of speech and thought introducers that are brought about by the adoption of innovations. Quantitative variationist analysis of a newly created corpus that spans 5 decades of conversational recordings in North-Eastern England investigates three questions: (1) What effect do extralinguistic and intralinguistic variables have on the relative distribution of the variants diachronically? (2) What are the determinants of change? (3) To what extent do different strategies of variable definition, in particular choices about the inclusion of internal states, determine the outcome of the investigation? Innovative methodology allows me to pinpoint the loci of the change that has been sparked by the intrusion of innovations, both in terms of repository of forms but also regarding the constraints that condition the whole system.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Corpus linguistics and sociolinguistic inquiry: Introduction to special issue
- The Logic of comparability: On genres and phonetic variation in a project on language change in real time
- The MAONZE project: Changing uses of an indigenous language database
- Quotations across the generations: A multivariate analysis of speech and thought introducers across 5 decades of Tyneside speech
- A corpus-based study of pragmatic markers in London English
- Variation in morphological productivity in the BNC: Sociolinguistic and methodological considerations
- Finding a balance: The Carolinas Conversation Collection
- Safe harbour: Ethics and accessibility in sociolinguistic corpus building
