Dear John et al,
I am a PhD candidate at the University of Bergen, Norway. Next summer I
am planning to go to Russia and do a verbal guise test using the
framework of the SLICE network (Kristiansen et al:
http://lanchart.hum.ku.dk/slice/publications_and_news_letters/publications/).
I have not published anything on the topic myself yet, but here is some
of the sociolinguistic research in Russia that I am familiar with:
Marion Krause at the University of Hamburg has done quantitative
sociolinguistic studies on Russians in Russia as well as Russian
heritage speakers in Germany, at her own and in cooperation with others.
Among other, she has studied Russian speakers' mental dialect map in the
capital as well as in Kursk and Kirov. This is her web page:
http://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/ISlav/personal/krause.html
Within Russia some research has been done in Perm', see e.g. this
presentation (in Russian with an abstract in English at the end)
http://www.rfp.psu.ru/archive/2.2010/dotsenko_erofeeva_erofeeva.pdf
Christian Sappok does research on dialects, sociolects and standard
language. He initiated a collection of sound material together with Lija
Bondarko which has resulted in a series of publications:
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/lilab/www-bff/Index.html Publication no 11
(by Erofeeva) is dedicated to the city language of Perm'.
In St. Petersburg, a corpus called "one day of speech" (my translation
BFV) is currently being developed: http://model.org.spbu.ru
Nadine Thielemann coordinates the network called "Urban Voices –
Linguistic and communicative diversity in face- to-face-interaction of
Russian-speaking interlocutors in Saint Petersburg and German cities"
http://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/ISlav/forschung/UrbanVoices/urbanvoices.html#geschi
Kind regards,
Benedikte F. Vardøy
PhD candidate
University of Bergen
Den 2014-04-24 15:03 skreiv Paul Kerswill:
> Someone I know from Togo (only via Facebook I'm afraid, but he is a
> frequent African Linguistics School attendee) has done an MA
> dissertation-length study of the emergence of emergence of a local form
> of
> Ewe in Lome which he calls Lomegbe. He's applied a somewhat
> sociohistorical
> approach, mainly derived from Trudgill's dialect contact and new
> dialect
> formation studies. (I guess he contacted me because of my similar
> interests.) He hasn't submitted this paper for anything so far as I
> know,
> like a Masters or a journal article, and it would need a bit of work
> before
> he does. If anyone would like me to, I'll get in touch with him to see
> if
> he is willing to be contacted.
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 24 April 2014 13:41, Patrick, Peter L <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bra John et al,
>>
>> These may not be exactly what you are looking for…
>>
>>
>>
>> Dave’s suggestion reminded me that Benji Wald’s 1973 Penn thesis
>> includes
>> a fair bit of quantitative data in chap. 4 of his 1973 thesis on
>> tense-marking in Mombasa Swahili.
>>
>>
>>
>> My former student Abolaji Samuel Mustapha wrote a 2004 Essex PhD on
>> “Gender Variation in Nigerian English Compliments”,
>>
>> which uses a corpus of 1200 compliment sets collected through
>> self-report
>> and observation from middle-class speakers of Nigerian English in
>> Lagos
>>
>> and describes frequency according to sex, age, social status, social
>> relationships, and ethnicity.
>>
>> You probably know Dagmar Deuber’s (2005) *Nigerian Pidgin
>> in
>> Lagos**: Language contact, variation and change in an African urban
>> setting*, from Philip Baker’s Battlebridge Publications,
>>
>> which is very good and has lots of quantitative data – my copy is at
>> home
>> so hard to say more but check it out.
>>
>> Bra John Singler may know more about recent African
>> variation
>> work…
>>
>>
>>
>> I don’t really know anything about former Soviet areas… but there is
>> some
>> interesting stuff on Hungarian both inside and outside Hungary. See
>> e.g.
>>
>> Anna Fenyvesi (ed.) 2005, *Hungarian language contact outside
>> Hungary*(Benjamins, IMPACT series), much of which comes out of the
>> SHOH project
>> directed in the 1990s by Miklos Kontra.
>>
>> Not that much of it is quantitative correlation work, but it is
>> fascinating.
>>
>> In the same series, James Stanford & Dennis Preston’s
>> (eds.)
>> 2009 book *Variation in indigenous minority languages* has a paper on
>> phonetic variation among Togolese speakers of Ewe,
>>
>> which probably isn’t long enough for your purposes and doesn’t cite a
>> longer study (PhD or the like) by the author, Kossi Noglo.
>>
>>
>>
>> It would be great to know what the final list of classics is that you
>> and
>> your students compile!
>>
>> All best,
>>
>> -Bra P-
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Peter L Patrick
>>
>> Dept. of Language and Linguistics
>>
>> University of Essex
>>
>> Colchester
>>
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>
>> *PLEASE NOTE: There may be a delay in me dealing with your email as I
>> am
>> participating in UCU industrial action by ‘working to contract’ in
>> support
>> of the union’s campaign for fair pay in higher education.*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Variationist List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of
>> *John
>> Rickford
>> *Sent:* 24 April 2014 02:04
>> *To:* [log in to unmask]
>> *Subject:* Quantitative Sociolinguistic Community Studies in Russia
>> and/or West Africa
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m wondering if anyone can direct me to quantitative sociolinguistic
>> studies done in Russia (or elsewhere in the former Soviet Union)
>> and/or
>> West Africa, at any point over the past half century. They can be
>> (sociological) survey type, or ethnographic. Ideally they should be
>> dissertation or book length studies, with the scope but not
>> necessarily the
>> methodology of Labov’s *Social Stratification of English in New York
>> City*or Trudgill’s *Social
>> Differentiaion of English in Norwich. *Two students in my
>> “Sociolinguistic Classics and Community Studies” course are interested
>> in
>> looking at/reporting on studies in those countries/regions for a class
>> requirement, and while I feel certain that these must exist, I can
>> only
>> think of one or two examples. Thanks in advance for any and all
>> assistance, esp. if they indicate how to get hold of copies (esp.
>> electronic).
>>
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>> John R. Rickford
>> J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities
>> Pritzker University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
>> Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2150
>>
>>
>>
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