Variety Linguistics
The Varieties is a sub-discipline of sociolinguistics within the applied linguistics and deals with the various forms or variations within a natural language . She tries to relate the different varieties with extra- linguistic factors such as age, gender or social affiliation and also looks at the change in language use, for example the emergence of an umbrella language .
Position of variety linguistics in linguistics
Variety linguistics research is integrated into the micro-area of sociolinguistic research, where it focuses on the use and function of -lects (such as dialects , sociolects, and regiolects ).
Research fields and goals
Variety linguistics is a science that works synchronously , i.e. with a view to contemporary language, that examines language with the aim of working out differences and reasons for these differences within a language, i.e. why certain speakers use or have specific variations.
A distinction is made between social varieties such as youth language or gender lectures and functional varieties such as technical language , corporate language or advertising language .
history
After the development of sociolinguistics in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which at that time had its focus primarily on language barrier research, variety linguistics developed with a different focus under the special influence of the US linguist William Labov . This initially considers the existence of variation as a typical feature of linguistic communication and only uses sociological criteria to explain it.
literature
- Ulrich Ammon , Hans Bickel , Jakob Ebner et al .: German dictionary of variants. The standard language in Austria, Switzerland and Germany as well as in Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, East Belgium and South Tyrol . de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-11-016575-9 .
- Ekkehard Felder : Introduction to Variety Linguistics . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2016, ISBN 978-3-534-26796-5 .
- Thomas Krefeld / Elissa Pustka: Perceptual Variety Linguistics (= Spazi comunicativi . Volume 8 ). Lang, Frankfurt / Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-61242-2 .
- Heinrich Löffler: German sociolinguistics . 3rd revised edition. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-503-07935-1 .
- Kirsten Nabrings: Linguistic Varieties (= Tübingen Contributions to Linguistics . Volume 147 ). Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3-87808-147-2 .
- Jürgen Erich Schmidt, Joachim Herrgen: Speech Dynamics . An introduction to modern regional language research (= Basics of German Studies . Volume 49 ). Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-503-12268-4 .
- Carsten Sinner: Variety Linguistics. An introduction . Narr Verlag, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8233-6790-1 .
- Werner H. Veith: Sociolinguistics. A work book (= fool study books ). 2nd, revised edition. Narr, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-8233-6198-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Fleischer, Wolfgang [ed.] (2001): Small encyclopedia. German language. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Vienna [a. a.], p. 55 (Section 2.4.4 Sociolinguistics).