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Moravians in Prague: A Sociolinguistic Study of Dialect Contact in the Czech
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Moravians in Prague: A Sociolinguistic Study of Dialect Contact in the Czech Republic Hardcover - 2009

by Jiri Nekvapil (Editor); James Wilson


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This book provides the first systematic description of the linguistic accommodation of Moravian migrants in Bohemia. By analyzing the linguistic behaviour of 39 university students from different parts of Moravia living at a hall of residence in Prague, the author investigates part of an unsubstantiated and ideologically motivated dialect contact hypothesis according to which in informal, everyday communication Moravians in Bohemia accommodate not in the direction of the standard dialect but to Common Czech, a non-standard interdialect that is spoken throughout Bohemia. The study combines a quantitative analysis of six linguistic variables with an ethnographic study of informants' linguistic and social behaviour. A primary objective of the study is to identify the impact of various social criteria on informants' acquisition of Common Czech forms.

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  • Title Moravians in Prague: A Sociolinguistic Study of Dialect Contact in the Czech Republic
  • Author Jiri Nekvapil (Editor); James Wilson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 266
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W, Frankfurt
  • Date 2009
  • ISBN 9783631586945 / 3631586949
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Sociological
  • Dewey Decimal Code 491.867

About the author

The Author: James Wilson is Teaching Fellow in Russian at the University of Leeds and an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Sheffield. His research interests include language variation in Czech, dialect contact and second-dialect acquisition.
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